Published November 6, 2020
Almost exactly 19 years ago IBM acquired CrossWorlds Software to add to their WebSphere business-integration middleware business. CrossWorlds was famous (or infamous) back then mainly because of its founder and approach to advertising, publicity and PR (public relations).
Published October 15, 2020
Who has actually made the move off of the mainframe?
The answer is almost no one, we still all have them sitting in the basement doing what they have always done.
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.
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.
Published September 2, 2020
Application Performance - Much of the costs associated with implementing a new app or upgrading an existing app are operational. For most companies at least a quarter of their entire IT budget is aligned to integration and configuration management.
Published July 23, 2020
Recently, I wrote about the difference between long-term support and continuous delivery releases of IBM MQ. In that discussion I pointed out that based on their traditional cadence that a new MQ release was not far off.
Published July 20, 2020
Are you like many enterprises, using a mix of messaging middleware applications including IBM MQ, Kafka and/or Tibco EMS?
And
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 May 29, 2020
If you are interested in multi-middleware message flow tracking, this video may be the best 5 minutes you have spent in a very long time!
Scott Corrigan from Nastel Technologies walks you through how to use Nastel’s XRay solution to view and analyze the performance of end-to-end transactions that span multiple middleware technologies (in the example you are interested in multi-middleware message flow tracking, this video may be the best 5 minutes you have spent in a very long time!le he shows an example using IBM MQ, Kafka and Java apps).
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.
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).
