Category: Messaging
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Messaging Infrastructure Is Still in the Dark: The Observability Illusion Costing Millions
In today’s always-on digital world, even the best messaging platforms—like Apache Kafka® and Apache ActiveMQ®—can become blind spots that undermine resilience. This article exposes the “observability illusion” many organizations face, showing how limited visibility and manual processes lead to outages, high costs, and constant firefighting. Learn how meshIQ transforms reactive operations into proactive engineering through unified observability, automation, and self-service.
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From Messaging Burden to Business Assurance: Rethinking MQ, Apache Kafka®, Apache ActiveMQ®, and RabbitMQ
Every enterprise depends on messaging and streaming platforms to keep transactions flowing, from purchase orders and invoices, to payments and claims, to the events that trigger customer experiences in real time. And yet, the very systems meant to assure reliability often create the opposite effect: cost, complexity, and blind spots that silently drain profit.
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Strategies for Ensuring Compliance in Financial Messaging
In the ever-evolving landscape of financial services, institutions are under constant pressure to ensure their messaging infrastructures comply with a myriad of global regulatory requirements. Compliance with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), and other localized financial regulations is not just a legal necessity but a
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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