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Published July 23, 2020
Recently, I wrote about the difference between long-term support and continuous delivery releases of IBM MQ. In that discussion I pointed out that based on their traditional cadence that a new MQ release was not far off.
Published July 20, 2020
Are you like many enterprises, using a mix of messaging middleware applications including IBM MQ, Kafka and/or Tibco EMS?
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Are you in the process of either moving some apps off of mainframes and in-house datacenters to the cloud, or starting to build news apps in new cloud environments?
Published June 24, 2020
Nastel RemoraJ, an open source, low overhead extensible Java Bytecode agent that allows you to perform application tracking.
This short video runs through how RemoraJ can be used with Nastel XRay to instrument a JBOSS application server and visualize and analyze a complex application.
Published June 15, 2020
It’s been four years since IBM MQ introduced Continuous Delivery (CD) and Long Term Support (LTS) releases.
The main objective was to give MQ users a choice between getting access to the latest and greatest features sooner than later (CD) or using a stable environment that had only bug fixes (LTS).
Published June 15, 2020
Previously I wrote about the difference in technology today compared to when MQ first came out. One of the areas that is most notable is network speed and how that relates to I/O as well as reliability.
Published June 12, 2020
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Published June 5, 2020
RemoraJ is an open source Java byte code instrumentation agent designed to help developers profile running Java apps with little overhead.
The focal point of RemoraJ is to provide visibility into what’s coming in and out of your java app by tracking calls such as HTTP, JDBC, JMS, WebSocket, IO Streams, Kafka and other inter JVM/IPC communications.
Published June 2, 2020
Published May 29, 2020
If you are interested in multi-middleware message flow tracking, this video may be the best 5 minutes you have spent in a very long time!
Scott Corrigan from Nastel Technologies walks you through how to use Nastel’s XRay solution to view and analyze the performance of end-to-end transactions that span multiple middleware technologies (in the example you are interested in multi-middleware message flow tracking, this video may be the best 5 minutes you have spent in a very long time!le he shows an example using IBM MQ, Kafka and Java apps).
Published May 28, 2020
I thought I’d share our experiences of running Solr in production. So far Solr 6.6.6 has been very stable provided GC, memory and other system resources are carefully managed. Here are some of the technical details which I hope will be useful to anyone considering this platform.
