Published September 13, 2022
There are a few key differences between distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. One is that OpenTelemetry offers a more unified approach to instrumentation, while distributed tracing takes a more granular approach. This means that OpenTelemetry can be less time-consuming to set up, but it doesn’t necessarily offer as much visibility into your system as distributed tracing does.
Published September 2, 2022
Apache Kafka is an open-source software platform for processing streams of events. Developed for the streaming and archiving of data, Kafka is now supported by a large ecosystem of third-party applications. Developed by the founders of Confluent, Kafka was initially created in 2007 while the three creators were at LinkedIn.
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 4, 2022
Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.
Published June 27, 2022
Devops is tough, but the choice between faster development and improving reliability shouldn't be. Consider shifting-left security, better observability, AIops platforms, and more.
Devops is primarily associated with the collaboration between developers and operations to improve the delivery and reliability of applications in production.
Published June 24, 2022
Published June 22, 2022
Few people can claim the moniker of “pioneer” in building the internet as we know it. Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks, is one of them who had a front-row seat in the late 90s to the infant days of building the internet.
Published April 1, 2022
In order to answer the question of why a business needs middleware management, it is necessary to define what middleware is (what is middleware). It is generally accepted that middleware is software that sits between existing systems and processes and helps to smooth integration and interaction between them.
Published February 4, 2022
According to research by Connecting Software, Fortune 1000 firms spend 40% of their IT budget on their Integration Infrastructure. Gartner Group’s John-David Lovelock said: “…digital tech initiatives remain a top strategic business priority for companies, focusing spending on making their infrastructure bulletproof and accommodating increasingly complex hybrid work.” He continues that enterprise software will have the highest growth in 2022, driven by infrastructure software spending to outpace application software spending.
