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Published April 29, 2022

As systems get ever more complicated with more layers in the application stack, it can become more difficult to keep track of what is happening at all of the different, discrete levels and this is where distributed tracing comes into play.

What is Distributed Tracing?
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Published September 13, 2021

The speed of Information Technology (IT) advancements is astounding. A few years ago, with a little commitment to study, someone could learn enough about IT to build a complete environment by themselves. But today’s hyper-virtualized environments contain so many layers of technology that it takes teams of specialists to be able to build and manage.

meshIQ Middleware Management and Observability Platform
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Published September 10, 2021

I don’t remember when, but sometime in the mid-90s, I was at a friend’s house in upstate New York and while browsing through the bookshelf came across an old worn-out copy of The Tao Te Ching by the Chinese philosopher and writer Lao-Tze.

The Tao of our Software
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Published November 23, 2020

There are numerous elements that affect the performance of your Java applications. Understanding them and making the appropriate choices suitable for your specific application requirements can dramatically improve performance in extremely cost-effective ways.

  1. Platform choices
  2. Library choices
  3. System Configuration choices

It may seem obvious, but with additional memory and faster memory, processors, networking, and disks your application will run faster.

Improve the performance of Java apps
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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?

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