Field notes on routes, error handling, and upgrades.
September 17, 2026 · RouteRangers
The 900 MB file and the 400,000-line JSON array break routes the same way: the whole body ends up in heap. Streaming splits, aggregators with durable bounded state, claim checks, and a restart story that holds.
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Camel JBang runs a single route file with no build, no pom, and no scaffolding. What it is genuinely good at, where it stops, and how `camel export` turns a spike into a real Maven project.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2026
Retries alone turn a slow dependency into an outage. How to use Resilience4j circuit breakers, throttling, and real backpressure in Camel routes — and where each one belongs.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · RouteRangers
Most Camel routes do a dual write — consume a message, touch a database, publish another message — and most of them have no story for a crash in the middle. Local transactions, transacted routes, the transactional outbox, and when XA is still the honest answer.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · RouteRangers
Putting a REST façade in front of SOAP or queue-based back ends is the most common Camel build we are asked for. What to specify first, where the contract lives, and the failure modes that only show up under load.
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