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Multi-Cloud for the Digital Silk Road?
Multi-Cloud for the Digital Silk Road?
For Western companies doing business in mainland China, digital connectivity can be a huge challenge when you're having…
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Alibaba Cloud - A Data-Driven Analysis
Alibaba Cloud - A Data-Driven Analysis
First up, this post touches on Brexit politics, peculiarities of Internet traffic crossing the Atlantic, Mo Farrah…
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Comparing Machine Learning through BBC News Analysis
Comparing Machine Learning through BBC News Analysis
Leveraging Machine Learning (or Artificial Intelligence) capabilities for your application is easier than it ever has…
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Jamil Ahmed shared this𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 That was the title of my talk at the #SolaceConnect Benelux event this week. It's always so energising to connect with our customers and partners and learn from the valuable insights they share. Very thankful for our customer speakers from JDE Peet's, Airbus and Schwarz Gruppe attending in Nijmegen, Netherlands. For my session it was a retrospective on 𝘸𝘩𝘺 the world's leading companies chose Solace. Breaking it down, industry by industry, to explore the business reasons why it was the time to invest in a technology revolution... The rationale boils down to one thing: when that industry is facing immense shocks and disruption, a select few companies leaned in to it. They 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 the disruption. It is in that moment you create true 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦. Within retail for example, the companies that leaned into the disruption of eCommerce, multi-channel fulfillment and pandemic lockdowns... they now have a unified view of both customers and inventory across physical and digital channels, delighting their customers with loyalty recognition and personalised experiences. Manufacturing and CPG had shared shocks, with the supply-chain model of 'Just-in-Time (JIT)' delivery many times being declared dead. For those companies that leaned into technology investment, they now have a competitive advantage through the use of 'Control Tower' and 'Digital Twin' solutions being in place to help weather future shocks. Which leads us nicely to the shared disruption facing industry today: AI. That is the new opportunity to embrace. Solace is working with many companies to co-innovate and build with AI. Looking forward to doing a retrospective on those companies for my next talk! Huge thanks to the Solace Europe team for organising another very successful event: Susie Dobing (Sewell), Lizzie Reeves, Magali Boulet, Fraser Dalby, Jeannot Bos, Emil Zegers, Raphaël Caillon, Hari Rangarajan, Peter Kester, Ruben van der Zwan, Alexander Martens, Alexandre Paul, Vincent RONTANI Shout out for our Gold Sponsors: Nalta, Emixa, Rojo Integrations, Utrecht IT Consulting(UIC) and ilionx. Photography by Lizzy Zaanen
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Jamil Ahmed shared thisAnd that's a wrap at CIBC! 🎉 230 developers, architects and operations engineers... 4 cities... and 1 packed out Toronto Auditorium. Another very successful Solace Certification Workshop delivered by the team of Aaron, Himanshu and Jamal, with a special appearance by our new Solace CTO Joshua Carroll! Thanks CIBC for bringing the excitement, enthusiasm and curiosity about event-driven architecture in banking. Special thanks to our hosts Fay, Joel and Michelle for the slick organisation. Lastly a shout out for the fastest 10 technologists to have gotten their certificates: 1. Stas Antropov - EDA Practitioner 2. Fay Tan - Agent Mesh Practitioner 3. Hoi-Men Wong - EDA Practitioner 4. Youngho Kim - Agent Mesh Practitioner 5. Titus Nulu - Developer Practitioner & EDA Practitioner 6. Ashly Mariam Koshy - Developer Practitioner 7. Kai T. - Agent Mesh Practitioner 8. Daniel Janovjak - Agent Mesh Practitioner 9. Joel Shardlow - Agent Mesh Practitioner 10. Anand Sridharan - Agent Mesh Practitioner 👏👏👏 #ImSolaceCertified #eda #banking
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Jamil Ahmed reposted thisJamil Ahmed reposted thisIBM's acquisition of Confluent last week underscored what we already knew: real-time context is critical for AI agents. But we believe that's just the starting point. At Solace, we've built a comprehensive framework for enterprise AI agents. Real-time context is in our DNA, but we've gone further—addressing the full spectrum of challenges enterprises face: orchestration, security, governance, observability, and data management. Proud to share that Solace's AI team has launched Solace Agent Mesh (SAM) Enterprise Edition to general availability. (Community Edition is open-source!) SAM continues to evolve rapidly with new enterprise capabilities. Two features I'm particularly excited about: • 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 – Full visibility into what happens after you submit a prompt. For enterprises, this transparency isn't optional—it's essential. • 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – AI at enterprise scale is expensive. Our intelligent data management optimizes LLM performance and costs by ensuring your agents query and process data efficiently. Check out Aaron's Office Hours video below, where Matt and 🥑 Tamimi demo SAM's (Cloud Edition) latest feature: our no-code Agent Builder. https://lnkd.in/eYsS8qiF #AI #AgenticAI #EDA #SolaceAgentMesh #Solace #Realtime #ContextEngineeringSolace Office Hours - Dec 2025 - Solace Agent Mesh EnterpriseSolace Office Hours - Dec 2025 - Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise
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Jamil Ahmed reposted thisJamil Ahmed reposted this💥 Big news - IBM’s $11B acquisition of Confluent is the clearest signal yet of how critical real-time data movement has become for modern enterprises. Solace CEO, Denis King shared his perspective on what this means for the industry and how leaders need to move: Key takeaways: ✅ The deal underscores the essential requirement for event streaming in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 🎯 ✅ It validates the need for robust integration between event-driven and traditional systems. 💡 ✅ Enterprises are doubling down on real-time data to power AI, automation, and customer experiences. 🚀 Read Denis’ full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/eixtcg4z Shawn McAllister Ali Pourshahid Tony Sheehan 🤜 Ainsleigh Huls David DeRosa Matt Mays David Overos tim wong Sumeet Puri Jamil Ahmed Phil Scanlon 🥑 Marc DiPasquale Greg Barr Kent Nash Vincent RONTANI Sean Brown Rachit Ahuja Bill Jackes Michael HilmenIBM + Confluent: What It Means for Real-Time Data, Agentic AI, and You | SolaceIBM + Confluent: What It Means for Real-Time Data, Agentic AI, and You | Solace
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Jamil Ahmed reposted thisJamil Ahmed reposted thisGenerative AI was the warm-up, but Agentic AI is the main event. Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise (now available!) helps you deliver on that promise with an Agentic AI platform that is easy to experiment with, ready for production, and completely open and cloud agnostic. Start building AI agents today that can actually scale and become a part of governed, real-time workflows that drive real business value. Read all about it: https://lnkd.in/e6VmAvZU
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Jamil Ahmed shared thisAnother worldwide cloud outage and services like Snapchat, Roblox and Duolingo were down. A forced break from those digital services may even have bettered our collective mental health. 🧠 But when your banking and financial services stop working for the start of week? That impact is a lot more serious. The BBC is reporting financial impact for people unable to complete transactions such as house purchases. Those institutions have no excuses for going down like this. 🏦 While IT outages are an unavoidable fact of life, poor planning for resiliency and having single points of failure is not.Jamil Ahmed shared thisWhen one cloud provider goes down, your business shouldn’t have to. Solace's Jamil Ahmed explains in IT Supply Chain why multi‑cloud, event-driven architectures and an event mesh are key to building resilient systems that keep your operations running—even during outages. Read the full article https://lnkd.in/gw8YmuEM
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Jamil Ahmed shared thisBlown away by the energy and engagement at #CitiMississauga, delivering a Solace Developer Certification Workshop with Aaron Lee. Some great conversations around: 🔹What does it mean to "think event-driven" and how is that disrupting businesses across industries such as aviation, manufacturing and retail? 🔹Seizing the opportunity to rebuild better apps following the mandates to exit legacy technology stacks 🔹How to build apps that are inherently future-proofed for new and emerging requirements, such as Agentic AI. Special thanks to Khurram Malik & Naaf Anowar for the long-term partnership, and Ian Ng & Ravi Lunia for the exec sponsorship of the event. 🎉A celebratory shout-out for the top-10 fastest developers to obtain their certification: 1. Ningning Yang 2. Alvin Tsang 3. Linwei Yuan 4. Parag Deshmukh, ACSM® 5. Venkatesh Bandi 6. Ashwini Kamath 7. Rumneet Singh Sidana 8. Surabhi Mishra 9. Sudharsan Ganesan 10. Yujie Sun 👏👏👏 #Solace #ImSolaceCertified
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Jamil Ahmed reposted thisJamil Ahmed reposted thisWe had our London Solace Connect event this week and it was yet another successful in-person event with many users and partners. Huge THANK YOU to our great speakers: Andrea Lojelo (JDE Peet's) who presented on his anniversary no less!!!, Nikolaus Samberger (Amadeus), Jake Smith (Cytiva), Oliver Cronk (Scott Logic), Francisco Manuel Parras Tomé (Boomi) and to our sponsor Utrecht IT Consulting(UIC) Get ready for our next Solace Connect in Frankfurt Nov 13. Great lineup of speakers - you won't want to miss that! Sign up below https://lnkd.in/eqfbCa2x Vincent RONTANI Alexandre Paul David Mitchell Michael Hayward Maz Ahmad Susie Dobing (Sewell) Jamil Ahmed Tom Fairbairn Richard Lawrence Mat Hobbis
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Jamil Ahmed reposted thisJamil Ahmed reposted this🙋♂️ I don't normally do this but... I have a bit of a request. I'm in the middle of working on a new semi-secret project and I might just need your help. So, if you have a moment, listen up... I'm trying to collect as many stories as possible about obscure components that go into everyday products and devices we all use. If you've read Material World (or even if you haven't) you might have noticed one of my pet obsessions is the fact that the world we inhabit is far more complex and amazing than most people realise. But most of the backstory of the stuff that surrounds us remains a mystery to most people. When most people buy a smartphone or even a loaf of bread, they are invariably completely oblivious about the hidden journey that product took before it got to them. And I want to try to tell some more stories about those hidden journeys and the hidden components inside all the stuff we buy. So here's my request: do you know of any obscure components that go into certain, everyday items - be it a car or a phone or even that loaf of bread - that few are even aware of? Better still, do you know of any obscure components most people have never heard of whose production is concentrated in only a few factories or companies in the world. Here, in case you're now wondering, are two good examples. One is the little switch made by Strix that goes into electric kettles and helps them switch off automatically - a story recounted by Tim Minshall in Your Life is Manufactured. Or another example is the little electrode I wrote about in my Substack a while back - made in a factory in Birmingham which goes into half the world's rear view mirrors. I have a fair few other stories like this - but I know they are just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of thousands of similar components being made in factories around the world without which the household products & brands we're all far more familiar with simply wouldn't function. But right now many of those stories are unsung, so few people are even aware of them. I want to help change that. So if you're a supply chain expert or are just familiar with certain rabbit holes in global trade, I'd love to hear from you. Message, connect or reply - and please repost this if you think others in your network might have some thoughts. All ideas gratefully received! Thanks for reading, Ed More on that electrode I mentioned: https://lnkd.in/egrsuwCX
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Jamil Ahmed reacted on thisJamil Ahmed reacted on thisA €0.02 payment times 21% VAT is €0.0042. Legally we round VAT to two decimals. Round down. VAT owed: €0.00. Now run that sum a billion times a day. That's where machine-to-machine commerce is heading through x402, ACP and UCP, the HTTP and agent payment standards already live at Coinbase, Google, Stripe, Mastercard and OpenAI. Your phone bill doesn't have this problem. It aggregates thousands of calls and rounds once at the end of the month. Nothing leaks. Machines don't bill each other like that. Every HTTP call is its own tiny sale. No account, no subscription, no end-of-month. The rounding rule fires on every payment and zeroes out. European treasuries now face two bad options. One. Let it go. Machine-to-machine commerce runs VAT-free. Billions of euros of receipts disappear. Two. Force machine payments into legacy paperwork. API calls get structured invoices, VAT numbers, quarterly filings. The overhead kills the market. Europe loses the agentic economy to jurisdictions that handled this sooner. Neither works. The cent rule is the law, not the technology. Money rounds to two decimals because that's how the euro was defined on paper. The rails underneath machine commerce run at multiple decimals natively. €0.0042 is a real, settleable amount on them. The only thing stopping VAT from flowing at eight decimals is one line of code honouring a law written before computers. mintBlue's Tax Splitter experiments with Belastingdienst already run on eight-decimal rails. The cent rounding sits in one configurable line. Change the law, change the line. Everything else keeps working. Legacy VAT reporting systems can't say that. They were built around the cent. Fixing them for machine commerce means rebuilding, not re-configuring. These are interesting times to be building infrastructure. Every piece of infrastructure built today serves one of two futures. Run the machine economy, or become the thing it replaces. What's yours built for?
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Jamil Ahmed liked thisJamil Ahmed liked thisFind Billy Hutton, Henry Durrant, Phil Morris and Ed Frankpitt at tradetech stand 47 today and tomorrow! Come and say hi, and find out why Reactive Markets is the home of bilateral trading. #equities #bilateralequities #equitiestrading
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Jamil Ahmed liked thisJamil Ahmed liked thisTo distribute 27M msgs/sec with the microsecond latency market data demands, you need to process data close to the source and stream it in real-time to a variety of downstream systems for analytics, risk, and processing. You can't achieve this kind of performance with log-based systems like Kafka. Solace is the world's fastest event broker — and these numbers prove it. This breakdown looks at how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts and Solace enable that level of performance. Read it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4aBy4mf
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Jamil Ahmed reacted on thisJamil Ahmed reacted on thisNinos Gabriel and his team at United Airlines stream data instantly across mission-critical systems with Solace, ensuring customers receive timely, accurate information throughout their journey. The platform handles 6 billion events daily while improving resilience and speeding recovery from disruptions. That's a better traveler experience — made real with real-time data. See how they did it: https://lnkd.in/ejXpzZQH
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Jamil Ahmed reacted on thisJamil Ahmed reacted on this🏒 AI + Hockey = A Weekend Story Worth Sharing. How Solace Agent Mesh crushed Gemini! Okay, I'll admit it. I used our enterprise AI platform for my son's spring hockey tournament. No regrets. 😄 The tournament organizers were tracking schedules and standings in two cryptic Google Sheets — great for them, confusing for everyone else. I wanted a quick summary: who are we playing next? How are we doing? First, I tried Gemini. It's supposed to love Google Sheets, right? Total hallucination. Garbage output. Zero hockey intel. ❌ Then I gave the same problem to Solace Agent Mesh. In a single prompt, it pulled the data, made sense of it, and handed me a polished tournament summary — upcoming games, standings, the works. It even built a website I could drop right into our team chat. The hockey parents were impressed. 🏆 So we kept going — adding excitement, iterating, making it even better. Then mid-weekend... an error hit. It was Saturday. No way I was raising a production ticket for my personal passion project. Instead, I asked Agent Mesh to diagnose the problem itself. It came back with a full analysis — identified a key timeout, proposed a solution (breaking the requests into smaller chunks), and we were back on the ice. 🔧✅ We finished the weekend with live updates, happy parents, and a team that felt like pros. See the pictures for some examples of the output. Here's what struck me: the orchestrator pattern — multiple specialized agents coordinated by a smart orchestrator — made something genuinely complex feel effortless. No wrangling. No prompt engineering gymnastics. Just results. AI isn't just transforming enterprise workflows. Apparently, it's also clutch for hockey dads in Canada. 🇨🇦 #AgentMesh #AI #Agentic #Innovation #Hockey #Solace #ProductManagement
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Jamil Ahmed reacted on thisJamil Ahmed reacted on thisNobody saw this 20-year-old coming. Now he might be the greatest trader of all time.
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Jamil Ahmed liked thisJamil Ahmed liked thisSo, I've been experimenting with Claude Code over the last couple of weeks and used it to improve a project I started over 8 years ago. Turns out Claude is pretty good at making things more user friendly and easier to use (at least better than me) and even suggesting some fancy algorithms, so I decided to open-source the result and here it is: The Solace Performance Test Harness — a tool I built to characterise and validate message throughput on Solace brokers, both software and hardware appliances. If you've ever needed to answer "does this broker actually meet its spec?" or "what's the real ceiling on this deployment?" — this is for you. Key features: - Fixed-target benchmarking — pre-configured testsets for each Solace licensing tier (1k / 10k / 100k Enterprise), reports pass/fail against published specs - Automatic discovery — exponential probe + binary search to find the maximum stable throughput when you don't know what your infrastructure might be capable to support - Automated diagnostics — analyses result files and identifies bottlenecks: CPU saturation, NIC limits, storage IOPS, message spool issues, and more - Driven by Ansible + sdkperf_c, so it runs across multiple parallel test hosts with minimal setup Runs on any Linux host with Ansible. Start with ./setup.sh and you're up in minutes. GitHub: https://lnkd.in/e_ejd8bp Feedback welcome! #Solace #Messaging #EventDriven #Performance #OpenSource
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Jamil Ahmed liked thisJamil Ahmed liked thisFirst trip to Kanata. First time at Solace HQ. Rain outside ☔. Energy inside was something else entirely. This week I got to spend time with the exec team in person - but more importantly, meet the people who actually make everything happen. We ran an open AMA with the HQ team. No scripts, no PR polish. Just real conversation with people who care deeply about what they're building. Philippe Khalife even made me a custom Solace light for my home office 👏. That kind of craftsmanship tells you everything about the culture. What stood out most? Clarity. Not just on what we're building at Solace - but why it matters. We're not chasing AI hype. We're solving the real problem behind it: getting data moving in real time across the enterprise. That's the foundation. That's where things either work or don't. And it's exactly what we're building with Solace Agent Mesh. If you're trying to connect applications, data, and AI in a way that actually scales -- link in the comments. We're already powering some of the biggest businesses on the planet across retail, manufacturing, aviation, transport and logistics, and financial services. Huge thanks to everyone in Kanata for the warm welcome. Special thanks to Stephanie Kaila for organizing the AMA - you rock! Denis King, Sherrie Seward, Jason Burke, Ken Wigglesworth, Ali Pourshahid, Paul Fitzpatrick, tim wong, Sumeet Puri, Shawn McAllister, Osama Laham, Jonathan Bosloy. This is going to be a fun journey. See you all next month. Forever forward!
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Zambia Vision Centre Setup - Business and Management Trainer
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Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) is a UK registered charity that works across the world to bring free or affordable eye care services in countries with need. This is done by setting up 'Vision Centres' within host countries, to be run as self-sufficient entities with local technical staff and trained eye-care practitioners. Three teams of volunteers from the UK spend 2 weeks at a time, as part of the 6-week setup for a single vision centre.
The team's over the 6 weeks are there to train staff…Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) is a UK registered charity that works across the world to bring free or affordable eye care services in countries with need. This is done by setting up 'Vision Centres' within host countries, to be run as self-sufficient entities with local technical staff and trained eye-care practitioners. Three teams of volunteers from the UK spend 2 weeks at a time, as part of the 6-week setup for a single vision centre.
The team's over the 6 weeks are there to train staff in all aspects of operating a vision centre, such as basic eye testing, running a lens cutting lab, patient and spectacles stock management, regular reporting back to the UK HQ, etc.
This particular project was to set up a vision centre in Zambia, in the northern province of Solwezi.
I was part of a team of 5, present for the middle 2 weeks of the overall project. My responsibility was specifically on delivering the 'business and management' training while others in the team ran lectures and practical workshops to train eye care clinicians.
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