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Published October 9, 2020

DevOps - Recently I’ve been investigating just how much time and effort companies put into building, configuring, using and maintaining their messaging middleware environments. And here’s what I’ve discovered.

1.  Everyone is using multiple messaging middleware systems.

Lessons from the DevOps shop floor
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Published October 7, 2020

What is observability? What is the difference between observability vs monitoring? - Since rejoining Nastel, after a long period away in the cloud, I’ve been wondering why people are now talking about ‘observability’ when they used to talk about ‘monitoring’.

The Benefits of Data Observability
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Published September 10, 2020

Messaging Middleware - Large enterprises generally expend about ¼ of their entire IT budget on the systems and processes to connect the disparate systems that make up complex application stacks.

When you look at how business processes are architected, they nearly always make use of a myriad of different infrastructure elements, platforms and applications, and these are all interconnected using an array of messaging middleware systems that ensure that every single request is processed even when the capacity and performance of some components causes requests to be stacked in queues.

The secret to exploiting your investment in messaging middleware!