Published February 23, 2023
Apache Kafka has come a long way since its initial development at LinkedIn in 2010 and its release as an open-source project the following year. Over the past decade, it has grown from a humble messaging bus used to power internal applications into the world's most popular streaming data platform.
Published February 22, 2023
Earlier this month, we announced a rebrand to meshIQ and in this blog we will highlight the reasons behind the rebrand and what you can expect going forward.
Nastel has been at the forefront of some major technological innovations in the middleware messaging management sphere.
Published December 20, 2022
Published July 18, 2022
Last year we published this blog post about the benefits of IBM MQ streaming queues. On July 15th, 2022 this functionality was also made available for MQ on the mainframe (z/OS) and it’s also been announced for the MQ appliance for Aug 2nd, 2022.
Published July 14, 2022
Integration and middleware staffing issues within IT Operations and Service Delivery teams are common, even in the largest enterprises. Here is the story of one large enterprise:
Talent Issues at a Large Global Financial Services Firm
Because of the complex nature of their messaging middleware and overall integration infrastructure (i2) environment, the organization required specialists for each management tool or platform, whether from a middleware vendor, homegrown solution, or third-party management tool.
Published July 14, 2022
When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow.
Published June 24, 2022
Published June 20, 2022
What’s new in IBM MQ 9.3?
The latest long-term support (LTS) and continuous delivery (CD) release of IBM MQ will be released for the distributed platforms on June 23, 2022.
IBM MQ 9.3, again, has a focus on securely powering cloud-native applications across hybrid-multicloud as well as making it easier to get started.
Published June 14, 2022
1. Overview
In this article, we will learn the differences between RabbitMQ Topic vs Direct exchange. To learn more about other RabbitMQ topics, refer to these articles.
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Published June 8, 2022
You will have seen the Nastel Messaging Middleware Performance Benchmark Report comparing the performance of the commonly used messaging middleware platforms - IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ Classic, ActiveMQ Artemis, TIBCO EMS, and Apache Pulsar.
