Published May 13, 2020
We have seen a lot of usage of MQ Internet Pass-Thru gateway, MQIPT. MQIPT was originally released as a support pack (MS81) and is delivered as a standard feature of MQ (MQ 9.1.4). The support pack will no longer be supported after September 2020.
Note, that it is possible to use MQIPT from 9.1.4 and later with earlier versions of MQ.
Published May 8, 2020
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.
Published April 6, 2020
COVID - 19 It’s a fact of life that new shiny things are more interesting that old, dull things. And yet it’s the boring stuff that keeps the world working. Once the problems have been ironed out and technology just works, it’s a lot less interesting for innovators to “play” with.
