Category: IBM MQ
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Modernising Middleware and B2B Integration with Assurance
Modernising enterprise middleware is now a strategic necessity for cost efficiency, AI-readiness, and operational clarity. Hybrid estates of IBM MQ, Apache Kafka®, and other brokers hide inefficiencies that drain profitability, but an operating model built on Assurance and Optimisation restores transparency and control. By unifying data, rebalancing workloads, and enabling safe AI autonomy, organisations can build a resilient “Confidence Economy.”
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From Middleware to Mission Control: How Transaction Visibility Turns into Operational Intelligence
In today’s digital enterprises, middleware isn’t just infrastructure—it’s the heartbeat of every mission-critical operation. Yet too often, it operates as an invisible black box. This article explores how organizations can transform middleware management into true Operational Intelligence—gaining complete transaction visibility, intelligent automation, and unified governance. Discover how meshIQ turns complex messaging environments like Apache Kafka®, MQ, and Solace into a strategic business advantage.
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Evolution of Apache Kafka® and Advantages Over Messaging
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. Its evolution is remarkable, and
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IBM MQ Streaming Queues Adds Business Value to Middleware
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. Nastel has been supporting and embracing this functionality for some time
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RabbitMQ Topic vs Direct exchange
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. 2. RabbitMQ Topic vs Direct Exchange Direct Topic A direct exchange delivers messages to queues based on the message routing key. Topic exchanges route messages to one or many queues based
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Just How Important Is Your Integration Infrastructure?
According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is $300K per hour. Last year Facebook lost $79 million due to a prolonged outage. National Australia Bank had to pay $7.4 million in compensation due to an outage in its payment system. One of our retail customers does 60% of its annual business in 10 days. Having systems up and running over the holiday period means life and death to that company.