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The Impact of MQ Tuning on Mainframe Performance and Scalability
When it comes to mainframe performance, MQ tuning is often one of the most underrated aspects. We’ve seen firsthand how it can make a significant difference in system performance. In one of our projects, a mainframe environment was struggling to keep up with the load. Applications were lagging, users were frustrated, and the hardware, despite
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How to Integrate MQ Monitoring into Modernized Mainframe Environments
Integrating MQ monitoring into a newly modernized mainframe environment isn’t something you can just wing. We’ve worked on projects where it seemed straightforward at first—just plug in some monitoring tools and you’re good to go, right? Not quite. The reality is, if you don’t approach this with a plan, you’ll find yourself tangled in a
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How a Modern Integration MESH Changes our Roles and Responsibilities
There was a time not too long ago, before the cloud was a part of every enterprise technology conversation, when integration work was considered the purview of a specific architecture and engineering group. If messages failed to send, or services failed to respond, application stakeholders would create a trouble ticket for the integration team to
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How to use OpenTelemetry for Apache Kafka® Monitoring
Apache Kafka® is a high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Its storage layer is in essence a massively scalable pub/sub message queue designed as a distributed transaction log. It can be used to process streams of data in real-time, building up a commit log of changes. Apache Kafka® has strong ordering guarantees that