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from 72bf24bd Add "When to use Apache Camel" page (#1649)
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(camel-website) 01/02: Add Flinkflow to open source projects using Apache Camel
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commit d920d6d19963001265ad2bee24bb17112ef73c62
Author: Claus Ibsen <cl...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 13 07:45:24 2026 +0200
Add Flinkflow to open source projects using Apache Camel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <no...@anthropic.com>
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content/community/user-stories.md | 1 +
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diff --git a/content/community/user-stories.md b/content/community/user-stories.md
index 7480e304..d72f8cdd 100644
--- a/content/community/user-stories.md
+++ b/content/community/user-stories.md
@@ -162,4 +162,5 @@ Several commercial software products and platforms use Apache Camel as their cor
|[SAP HANA](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hana-smart-data-integration-simplifies-connecting-facebook-shankar/)|The platform from SAP uses Apache Camel.|
|[Eclipse Kura](https://eclipse.dev/kura/)|Eclipse IoT M2M gateway for edge devices. Apache Camel provides the built-in message routing engine for protocol translation (MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, OPC UA, HTTP) and enterprise integration patterns at the IoT edge. Deployed on Raspberry Pi and industrial gateways.|
|[Eclipse Kapua](https://www.eclipse.org/kapua/)|Eclipse IoT cloud management platform for device registry, management, messaging, and telemetry. Uses Apache Camel and ActiveMQ for message routing and integration. Co-sponsored by Red Hat and Eurotech.|
+|[Flinkflow](https://github.com/talwegai/flinkflow)|Declarative, low-code stream processing platform built on Apache Flink. Uses Apache Camel as one of three polyglot runtimes (alongside Java and Python) for embedding transformation and filtering logic inside Flink pipelines. Camel's Simple, JsonPath, Groovy, and YAML DSL expressions run as embedded evaluators within Flink operators. Apache 2.0 licensed, maintained by Talweg.|
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(camel-website) 02/02: chore: use 1,500+ contributors (git shortlog main-branch count)
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commit 4d66188bb14aa12b8a36a61f1a6e6cfd45b9ef97
Author: Claus Ibsen <cl...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 13 10:38:17 2026 +0200
chore: use 1,500+ contributors (git shortlog main-branch count)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <no...@anthropic.com>
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content/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/index.md | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/content/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/index.md b/content/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/index.md
index b0a034ee..d9add0f6 100644
--- a/content/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/index.md
+++ b/content/blog/2026/06/camel-by-the-numbers/index.md
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ draft: false
authors: [davsclaus]
categories: ["Community"]
keywords: ["apache camel", "open source", "statistics", "community", "enterprise integration", "contributors", "adoption"]
-preview: "100,000 commits, 1,600+ contributors, 450+ companies, 311 components, 300+ releases — the numbers behind one of the world's most widely deployed open source integration frameworks"
+preview: "100,000 commits, 1,500+ contributors, 450+ companies, 311 components, 300+ releases — the numbers behind one of the world's most widely deployed open source integration frameworks"
---
-When the first commit landed on March 19, 2007, Apache Camel was a routing library with a handful of components and a single contributor. Nineteen years later, the git repository has crossed **100,000 commits** from **1,600+ contributors** representing **450+ companies** across more than **20 countries**. The project ships **311 integration components**, has published **300+ releases**, and runs in production at organizations where downtime means grounded flights, blocked payments, or mi [...]
+When the first commit landed on March 19, 2007, Apache Camel was a routing library with a handful of components and a single contributor. Nineteen years later, the git repository has crossed **100,000 commits** from **1,500+ contributors** representing **450+ companies** across more than **20 countries**. The project ships **311 integration components**, has published **300+ releases**, and runs in production at organizations where downtime means grounded flights, blocked payments, or mi [...]
These aren't marketing estimates. Every number in this post is verifiable from the [git repository](https://github.com/apache/camel), [OpenHub](https://openhub.net/p/camel), [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apache-camel), and [GitHub](https://github.com/apache/camel). We ran the queries. Here's what the data says.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The project maintains multiple Long-Term Support (LTS) release lines simultaneou
If you're evaluating Apache Camel for a project, the numbers tell you three things:
-**1. You're not alone.** 1,600+ contributors, 450+ companies, and 11,700+ Stack Overflow questions mean that whatever problem you hit, someone has likely hit it before. The community is large enough that questions get answered, bugs get fixed, and components stay maintained.
+**1. You're not alone.** 1,500+ contributors, 450+ companies, and 11,700+ Stack Overflow questions mean that whatever problem you hit, someone has likely hit it before. The community is large enough that questions get answered, bugs get fixed, and components stay maintained.
**2. It won't disappear.** Projects with one maintainer or one corporate sponsor carry risk. Camel has survived the transitions from SOA to microservices to cloud-native to AI agents — not by pivoting, but by adding components for each new paradigm while keeping the core stable. The Apache Software Foundation governance ensures no single company can acquire, pivot, or shut down the project.
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ For transparency, here are the complete statistics from the git repository and p
| Metric | Core Repo | All Repos (Core + Spring Boot + Quarkus + K) |
|---|---|---|
| Total commits | ~100,000 | ~166,000 |
-| Contributors (unique emails) | 1,610 | — |
+| Contributors (unique emails) | 1,500+ | — |
| Corporate email domains | 450+ (author + co-author, provable floor) | — |
| Integration components | 311 | — |
| Java source files | 56,169 | — |