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).
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.
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’.
Published September 23, 2020
I was having a discussion the other day about IBM MQ maximum queue depth. After thinking about this, I really got to thinking about why this exists. The basic concept for a queue is to hold messages the producers create until consumers can process them.
Published September 2, 2020
Application Performance - Much of the costs associated with implementing a new app or upgrading an existing app are operational. For most companies at least a quarter of their entire IT budget is aligned to integration and configuration management.
Published August 7, 2020
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.
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 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 May 27, 2020
It is amazing how MQ has managed to stay relevant over all of these years. Looking back to when it first came out in the 1990's, we were dealing with 2400 baud modems connected to remote locations running a number of different technologies, over spotty telephone lines using token ring protocols.
