Published May 21, 2020
Published May 20, 2020
- Timestamp – This may seem obvious, but many log files do not have time stamps. And to ensure that they can be consistently used, timestamps also must have a time zone or be set to a standard time zone, such as UTC.
- Tags:
- app source,
- log message,
- stack trace,
- timestamp
Published May 19, 2020
The world is waking up to the importance of tracing and tracking techniques, something experienced operations staff have used for decades.
In IT terms the idea of following the pathway (the act of tracing) that a user takes through a complex business system is the cornerstone of the analysis that is performed by security and operations teams every day.
- Category:
- APM – Application Performance Management
- Tags:
- APM,
- corona,
- coronavirus,
- coronavirus-effect,
- covid-19,
- PANDEMICS
Published May 14, 2020
As we prepare for the first rounds of business to open across the nation, we’re all expecting a number of things to happen in parallel, including:
- An increased sense of awareness of the presence of other people.
- Category:
- Retail
- Tags:
- business,
- corona,
- coronavirus,
- coronavirus-effect,
- covid-19
Published May 13, 2020
We have seen a lot of usage of MQ Internet Pass-Thru gateway, MQIPT. MQIPT was originally released as a support pack (MS81) and is delivered as a standard feature of MQ (MQ 9.1.4). The support pack will no longer be supported after September 2020.
Note, that it is possible to use MQIPT from 9.1.4 and later with earlier versions of MQ.
- Category:
- IBM MQ
- Tags:
- MQ Managers,
- MQ Operation,
- MQIPT,
- simplifying
Published May 12, 2020
Published May 11, 2020
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When you hear people talking about messaging middleware (or messages in general), you frequently hear the term “payload” being used to describe the message content.
- Categories:
- meshIQ,
- Middleware
- Tag:
- Messaging Middleware
Published May 8, 2020
Recently I have setup test environments on both the IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka cloud offerings. For both of these the setup was quick and simple.
Since many applications today are using client connections, switching from a locally hosted service to a cloud offering was as simple as changing the connection URL.
- Categories:
- Apache Kafka,
- hybrid cloud,
- IBM MQ
- Tag:
- confluent
Published May 7, 2020
There are some excellent sources of data on the spread of the COVID19 virus around the world, and across the different states and counties.
But how can you use this data to understand what is happening and how it can be expected to change over time?
- Tags:
- corona,
- coronavirus,
- coronavirus-effect,
- covid,
- covid-19,
- pandemic
Published April 27, 2020
When developers create a middleware messaging connection between apps, they may choose to do so without encryption, to keep things fast and simple.
Often apps rely on middleware level encryption which secures data in transit between middleware hubs (brokers).
- Categories:
- Middleware,
- monitoring
- Tag:
- Messaging Middleware
