We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0 offers the following features: This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The feature set for 1.1.0 includes: Updated error message handling - 1.1.0 adds a new column to the TASK_EXECUTION table, ERROR_MESSAGE. This new column will be where any…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release. What's new in Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2 This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The main updates for this release are the following: Support for Generated Task Id - A common use case for a Spring Cloud Task application is to launch it within a PaaS, like Cloud Foundry or…

#Introduction# A common question when developing streaming applications is, “How many events per second can you process?”. The primary purpose of this blog post is to answer that question without falling into the classic benchmarking conundrum of benchmarking versus "benchmarketing". The common approach with 'native' benchmarking applications provide by messaging middleware vendors is to focus on raw data transport speed, without serialization or deserialization of the message data and without any data processing. In Part 1 of the series, we will follow this approach. Our tests used direct…