Scaling Kafka? Learn How To Avoid Costly Mistakes! Download Our Whitepaper
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Published November 23, 2020

There are numerous elements that affect the performance of your Java applications. Understanding them and making the appropriate choices suitable for your specific application requirements can dramatically improve performance in extremely cost-effective ways.

  1. Platform choices
  2. Library choices
  3. System Configuration choices

It may seem obvious, but with additional memory and faster memory, processors, networking, and disks your application will run faster.

Improve the performance of Java apps
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Published November 6, 2020

Almost exactly 19 years ago IBM acquired CrossWorlds Software to add to their WebSphere business-integration middleware business.  CrossWorlds was famous (or infamous) back then mainly because of its founder and approach to advertising, publicity and PR (public relations).

CX Makes This ‘CrossWorld’ Estate Sexy Again
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Published October 30, 2020

Information Technology (IT) has always relied on monitoring to provide an understanding of how systems perform over time. The basics has always been to collect a series of metrics and to build an algorithm that shows how these metrics are related, and then to show when a system is either reaching the limits of its capacity or is likely to break.

Observability is to Monitoring what Tesla is to Horse Drawn Carriage
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Published October 15, 2020

Who has actually made the move off of the mainframe?

The answer is almost no one, we still all have them sitting in the basement doing what they have always done.

Is Legacy Technology Still Your Greatest Asset?
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Published October 9, 2020

DevOps - Recently I’ve been investigating just how much time and effort companies put into building, configuring, using and maintaining their messaging middleware environments. And here’s what I’ve discovered.

1.  Everyone is using multiple messaging middleware systems.

Lessons from the DevOps shop floor
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Published October 7, 2020

What is observability? What is the difference between observability vs monitoring? - Since rejoining Nastel, after a long period away in the cloud, I’ve been wondering why people are now talking about ‘observability’ when they used to talk about ‘monitoring’.

The Benefits of Data Observability
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Published September 30, 2020

Nastel Technologies today announced that Nastel Navigator is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises.

Nastel Technologies Announces Availability of Nastel Navigator on Red Hat Marketplace
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Published September 25, 2020

COVID-19 delivered a blow to the way we all work, and almost overnight millions of us has to learn how to work remotely. For many companies this forced lesson, taught them that actually remote working can have a lot of positive benefits.

How businesses are making hybrid offices a permanent feature
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Published September 18, 2020

The classic methods of monitoring computing platforms created a vast array of odometers and graphs that displayed the changes over time of critical system parameters.

The thinking has always been that if you can measure key system performance and capacity parameters, then you can build up a picture of performance from which you can then calculate and predict performance issues.

Understanding the Three Pillars of Observability: Logs, Metrics and Traces
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Published September 11, 2020

Have you ever wondered why railroads are the width they are? US railroads are 4 feet 8 ½ inches in width, this may seem like an odd measurement, but there is actually a very good reason for it.

The power of standards

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