Published August 7, 2020
Cloud - Business applications have continued to become more complex, and the tools we all rely on to monitor performance have not always kept up.
The basic model that APM relies on, starts by capturing performance metrics and then using the knowledge developers and administrators have about the how these metrics can be analyzed to describe the performance of specific business processes.
Published July 20, 2020
Are you like many enterprises, using a mix of messaging middleware applications including IBM MQ, Kafka and/or Tibco EMS?
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Are you in the process of either moving some apps off of mainframes and in-house datacenters to the cloud, or starting to build news apps in new cloud environments?
Published June 15, 2020
Previously I wrote about the difference in technology today compared to when MQ first came out. One of the areas that is most notable is network speed and how that relates to I/O as well as reliability.
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.
