Published July 17, 2020
After reading Richard's blog about large balloons in India, I felt the need to explore this topic a little further.
A few years back I was on a business trip to Bangalore, and one night while in my hotel room reading the paper copy of the Bangalore times (a free paper left in my hotel room by the staff) , I came upon a really interesting article about luxury train journeys across Africa.
Published July 16, 2020
On my first trip to India I stayed right across from the gateway of India. This is a tourist area, especially popular for the locals, and some international travelers. From my hotel window, I could see street vendors with these really big balloons.
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 June 12, 2020
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Published June 2, 2020
I recently had a technical problem to solve that had me stumped. My first reflex was to read the available documentation, hoping to find an answer. I didn't find what I was looking for.
Published May 28, 2020
I thought I’d share our experiences of running Solr in production. So far Solr 6.6.6 has been very stable provided GC, memory and other system resources are carefully managed. Here are some of the technical details which I hope will be useful to anyone considering this platform.
Published May 27, 2020
It is amazing how MQ has managed to stay relevant over all of these years. Looking back to when it first came out in the 1990's, we were dealing with 2400 baud modems connected to remote locations running a number of different technologies, over spotty telephone lines using token ring protocols.
Published May 26, 2020
While we all continue to shelter in place, many companies are now going through the process of getting ready to reopen offices. Here in New York the government has put in place a rigorous reopening plan (one that I suspect is similar to that of most other countries and states).
Published May 21, 2020
A common question that comes up is “what did my IBM MQ application program do?“
For example, we expected messages to be on this queue, but they are not there. What happened?
Published May 20, 2020
