By Andriy Andrunevchyn, CTO @Software Service & Innovation A five-part story of building and running one of Europe’s larger SMS gateways. In 2011, PayPal gave Echovox twelve months to walk away from the platform its business ran on. This is the story of the platform a small Swiss-Ukrainian team built to replace it, Echonect, and of the boring, durable engineering that has kept it running ever since. It was first published as a five-part series; the five parts are collected here as one.

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The Apache Camel project pointed a frontier AI model at 19 years of integration code and said: find what we missed. It found 165 bugs for the upcoming 4.22 LTS release. Not cosmetic issues — concurrency races, silent data loss scenarios, security gaps, and edge cases buried deep in 350+ connectors. We fixed all of them — every single one — with a median fix time of 1 day, the same pace this project has maintained for 17 of the last 19 years.

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Getting started with the Camel CLI used to mean installing a JDK, then jbang, then finally running jbang camel@apache/camel init for the first time. That friction is gone. install.sh and install.ps1 get the Camel CLI Launcher running on your machine with a single command, no package manager and no separate jbang install required. One-line install On macOS and Linux: curl -fsSL https://camel.apache.org/install.sh | sh On Windows, in PowerShell: irm https://camel.apache.org/install.ps1 | iex Update (2026-07-25): A server configuration issue was briefly returning a 403 for the install.

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