Category: Streaming

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The Art of Scaling: How to Determine the Right Number of Apache Kafka® Partitions

Apache Kafka® partition count isn't just a number—it defines parallelism, ordering, and operational complexity. Learn the formula to balance throughput requirements with maintenance costs, avoid common anti-patterns, and find your 'Goldilocks' number for production-ready performance.

The Art of Scaling: How to Determine the Right Number of Apache Kafka® Partitions

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Beyond the Queue: Modernizing Legacy Middleware with Apache Kafka® 4.x

Apache Kafka® 4.x eliminates the final barriers to legacy middleware modernization. With KRaft mode removing ZooKeeper dependency and native queue semantics bridging the gap, enterprises can finally transition from point-to-point messaging to event-driven architectures.

Beyond the Queue: Modernizing Legacy Middleware with Apache Kafka® 4.x

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Modernizing Middleware for the AI Era

As AI adoption accelerates, middleware complexity intensifies. In this discussion with meshIQ CEO Navdeep Sidhu, discover why governance—not speed—has become the defining factor for enterprise success, and why fragmented middleware environments can no longer be ignored in the AI era.

Modernizing Middleware for the AI Era

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Apache Kafka® vs. Apache ActiveMQ®: Deciding the Right Open-Source Platform for Your Use Case

Learn the key differences between Apache Kafka® and Apache ActiveMQ® — from messaging models to performance, scalability and use cases — and see how meshIQ improves observability across both platforms.

Apache Kafka® vs. Apache ActiveMQ®: Deciding the Right Open-Source Platform for Your Use Case

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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.

Messaging Infrastructure Is Still in the Dark: The Observability Illusion Costing Millions

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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

IBM MQ Streaming Queues Adds Business Value to Middleware

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