Category: Devops
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ActiveMQ Upgrade & Patching Strategy: The Expert Guide
On October 27, 2023, the Apache Software Foundation published CVE-2023-46604, a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ® that allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting the OpenWire protocol's ClassInfo deserialization.
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ActiveMQ Performance Benchmarks: A Complete Methodology Guide
Most ActiveMQ performance benchmarks are wrong, not slightly off, but fundamentally invalid for capacity planning. Performance benchmarking done incorrectly is worse than not benchmarking at all. A number that looks like a throughput measurement but was collected without JVM warmup, without latency percentiles, with the load generator co-located on the broker host, and while producer
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ActiveMQ Capacity Planning: The Complete Framework
Most ActiveMQ deployments are sized in one of two ways: either under-provisioned from underestimating growth ("we'll upgrade when we need to") or over-provisioned from anxiety ("better give it 32GB just in case"). Both approaches are avoidable with a structured capacity planning framework that translates your messaging workload characteristics into specific hardware and configuration requirements.
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ActiveMQ Backup and Disaster Recovery: Complete DR Guide
A message broker's backup and disaster recovery plan is the last line of defense against scenarios that HA cannot address: a full datacenter outage, catastrophic hardware failure that destroys both primary and secondary nodes, accidental message deletion, or KahaDB corruption that prevents the broker from starting.
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Who’s Driving Your Data? How to Regain Control of Your Apache Kafka® Infrastructure
Apache Kafka® often succeeds faster than operational maturity can keep pace. Consumer lag, partition drift, and configuration sprawl create dangerous blind spots. Learn how unified visibility, governance, and automation transform reactive Kafka operations into predictive control.
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ActiveMQ Protocol Comparison: AMQP vs MQTT vs OpenWire vs STOMP
One of ActiveMQ's most powerful and underappreciated capabilities is its protocol polyglotism: a single broker can simultaneously accept Java JMS clients over OpenWire, Python services over AMQP, IoT sensors over MQTT, and Ruby scripts over STOMP, all routing messages between each other without protocol bridges or translation middleware.