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Published January 26, 2021

Poll Results Indicate New Kafka & Cloud Middleware-related Activity for MQ Shops

By Steven Menges

The initial polling of IBM MQ customers reveals some interesting trends as we enter 2021.

Poll #1: When asked which one area they were looking to learn more about in 2021, the top response was “Tools for Cloud Migration of Messaging Middleware.”  It is important to note that all the respondents have IBM MQ messaging middleware in their estate, most also have Kafka, and many also have IIB (IBM Integration Bus), IBM ACE (App Connect Enterprise), and/or TIBCO EMS are part of their IT stack.

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Poll Results Indicate New Kafka, Cloud Middleware-related Activity for MQ Shops
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Published November 6, 2020

CX Makes This ‘CrossWorld’ Estate Sexy Again

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By meshIQ

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).

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CX Makes This ‘CrossWorld’ Estate Sexy Again
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Published October 9, 2020

Lessons from the DevOps shop floor

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By meshIQ

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.

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Lessons from the DevOps shop floor
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Published August 7, 2020

Performance Monitoring in the Cloud Age

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By meshIQ

Cloud - Business applications have continued to become more complex, and the tools we all rely on to monitor performance have not always kept up.

The basic model that APM relies on, starts by capturing performance metrics and then using the knowledge developers and administrators have about the how these metrics can be analyzed to describe the performance of specific business processes.

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Performance Monitoring in the Cloud Age
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Published July 20, 2020

Solving A Common Cloud Migration Issue For Messaging Middleware

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By meshIQ

Are you like many enterprises, using a mix of messaging middleware applications including IBM MQ, Kafka and/or Tibco EMS?

And

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?

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Solving A Common Cloud Migration Issue For Messaging Middleware
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Published June 15, 2020

Advances in technology solve problems while creating new ones

By Richard Nikula

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.

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Advances in technology solve problems while creating new ones
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Published May 8, 2020

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

By Richard Nikula

Recently I have setup test environments on both the IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka cloud offerings. For both of these the setup was quick and simple.  

Since many applications today are using client connections, switching from a locally hosted service to a cloud offering was as simple as changing the connection URL.

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