Articles

Camel Videos

• Cadec 2026 Large Project Migration from Mule to Apache Camel - Cadec (January 2026) use-case how they migrated 340 integrations from Mule to Camel (Swedish)
• Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) | What is Apache Camel? from January 2026 by Jasvinder Saggu; a great 50-minute video that greatly covers the importance of integration, EIP patterns and what Apache Camel can do. Highly recommended for new users to Camel.
• Enterprise Integration Is Dead! Long Live AI-Driven Integration with Apache Camel from Devoxx UK in May 2025 where Markus and Bruno shows first hand how Camel, powered by AI, is quietly reinventing how we connect the enterprise.
• Apache Camel and ActiveMQ at UPS May 2024 where UPS presented their use of Apache Camel and ActiveMQ on OpenShift processing tens of billions messages a day.
• Quarkus Insights #110: Quarkiverse Extension Spotlight of Apache Camel November 2022 where Apache Camel was presented on the Quarkus webcast (1h session).
• Huawei Cloud Roma Connect: Enterprise Integration Platform With Apache Camel presentation from ApacheCon Asia 2021 in August 2021 by Eugene Chan and Reji Mathews present how Apache Camel powers the runtime engine for Huawei Cloud ROMA (commercial iPaaS offering by Huawei Cloud)
• Getting further with Apache Camel on Quarkus ApacheCon 2021 by Alexandre Gallice covering how great Camel and Quarkus work together, and how to build cloud native Camel microservices on Kubernetes
• Apache Camel 3: the next generation of enterprise integration ApacheCon 2021 by Claus Ibsen and Andrea Cosentino with introduction to Apache Camel v3 and what we have done to make Camel great for cloud native integrations
• Build your own social media analytics with Apache Kafka, Strimzi and Apache Camel presentation from Data Con LA 2021 by Jakub Scholz presents how to use Camel and Kafka Streams to analyze tweets.
• Formula 1 telemetry processing using Kafka Streams - DevConf.CZ 2021 - 25 min presentation from April 2021 by Paolo Patierno and Thomas Cooper talking about how they capture metrics from F1 computer game and stream into Kafka using Camel.
• Monitoring Camel applications with nJAMS 10 min video from October 2020 by Abdelghani Faiz covering how nJAMS monitoring tooling now has Camel plugin to do deep monitoring of Camel applications with route visualization and message capturing.
• How to quickly run 100 Camels with Apache Camel, Quarkus and GraalVM - A 10 minute video from April 2020 where Claus shows how to run Camel in both JVM and Native compiled mode and compare startup speed and memory usage.
• Apache Camel monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana - 10 min video from July 2020 where Alaim Pham demonstrate how to build custom dashboard in Grafana to monitor Camel applications.

Articles

Recent Articles (2020+)

• Spring Boot vs Quarkus: Which Java Runtime Wins the AI MCP Tools Performance Battle? by Ege Karaosmanoglu (May 2026) rigorous benchmark of 12 MCP microservice configurations — Quarkus JVM + Camel still beats every Spring Boot baseline.
• Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Integration with Apache Camel by Sedac Got (March 2026) how to build a production-ready Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 integration using Apache Camel.
• Using Apache Camel with CouchDB and ingesting docs to Elasticsearch February 2026 a deeper technical blog about the lesson learned how to do ETL and improve performance with parallel processing and tune thread pools.
• Using gRPC with Apache Camel by Vimukthi Mayadunne from October 2024 a step-by-step guide on how to integrate remote gRPC service with Apache Camel.
• Creating custom processors, Kamelets and components in Apache Camel from June 2022 blog on how to write custom Camel code with processors, Kamelets and components.
• Saga-Based Design Using Apache Camel and Kafka: Implementing Highly Reliable Distributed Business Transactions article from June 2021 about the Saga EIP for transactions with Camel and Kafka.
• Distributed Logs and Tracing with Spring, Apache Camel, OpenTelemetry and Grafana blog post by Anton Goncharov in June 2020 with example how to setup OpenTracing with Camel and have a visual Grafana dashboard.
• Quick Integration with Apache Camel and IBM MQ article from May 2020 by Chandra Shekhar Pandey showing how to use Apache Camel running on Spring Boot to integrate with IBM MQ and testing it with Docker containers.

Still Relevant Older Articles

• The Saga Pattern in Apache Camel from April 2018 by Nicola Ferraro explains in an in-depth blog post all about the Saga pattern in Camel.
• Integrating Amazon MQ with other AWS services via Apache Camel (April 2018) blog post from Amazon compute blogs showing the steps how to run ActiveMQ and Camel on AWS and integrate with AWS services like S3 and others.
• Short Retry vs Long Retry in Apache Camel from June 2017 by Bilgin Ibryam - Talks about difference between short and long retries with Camel.
• Creating Clustered Singleton Services on Kubernetes with Apache Camel from October 2017 by Nicola Ferraro talks about how the Camel master component can be used for singleton routes in a cluster such as Kubernetes.
• Monitoring Camel with Prometheus in OpenShift from November 2017 by Bruno Meseguer talks about how to gather Camel metrics using Prometheus and display in Grafana.
• Microservices with Apache Camel - Piotr Mińkowski blogs from March 2017 about developing microservices with Apache Camel and using the Rest-DSL with Spring Boot.

Online Training

• Fundamentals of Integration with Apache Camel - Pluralsight Training Course (launched in February 2022) by Michael Hoffman. Course with introduction on Apache Camel, its concepts and EIPs, and how-to examples.
• Build a Registration System with Camel and Kubernetes - A self-paced online learning (May 2021) where you’ll master common Apache Camel techniques and components for helping build modern interconnected applications.
• Udemy Training: Apache Camel for Beginners - Learn by Coding in Java - Learn Apache Camel framework by coding it in Java. This course will cover integrations with Kafka, ActiveMQ, Postgres SQL, REST WebServices and more.

Other

• Apache Camel LinkedIn Group - The Apache Camel group on LinkedIn.
• TrustRadius Apache Camel Reviews - Reviews and ratings from Camel end users on the TrustRadius website.
• Apache Camel Reference Card at DZone by Claus Ibsen
• There are several companies that provide extra documentation, examples, tutorials, etc… See the Commercial Camel Offerings page for more details.