Published September 5, 2024
Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes can feel like a game-changer—mixing the powerful message streaming capabilities of Kafka with the flexible, scalable orchestration of Kubernetes. It sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Well, not so fast. While running Kafka on Kubernetes has some fantastic benefits, it also comes with its own set of challenges.
Published September 2, 2024
When it comes to securing your Kafka deployment, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are some of the most powerful tools at your disposal. But let’s be honest—ACLs can be a bit daunting if you're not familiar with them. We’ve all been there, staring at Kafka’s ACL configurations and wondering if we’re doing it right.
Published August 28, 2024
You ever get that nagging feeling that maybe, just maybe, you’ve missed something crucial in a project? When it comes to deploying Apache Kafka, that “something” often turns out to be security. I’ve been there myself, thinking everything was running smoothly, only to realize later that I’d left the door wide open for potential security issues.
Published March 27, 2023
The last decade has been nothing but a roller coaster ride for the airline industry. The pandemic has transformed it forever and now it needs to reevaluate its digital transformation priorities on how to manage traveler expectations. Taking it a step further, travelers buying behavior is changing farther as now they will want to book tickets while chatting with an AI interface.
Published September 26, 2022
Nastel Technologies – Intelligence from Integration
Leading Global Provider of Messaging Middleware-Centric Performance & Transaction Management
Banking is about financial transactions. These are executed by sending payments and instructions over middleware.
Published July 11, 2022
Selecting the right middleware for your company can be one of the most important decisions that you can make at the outset of a software project, as this will determine how well your business performs going forward. We look at some of the key features from the major integration software providers below.
Published June 28, 2022
Most of us picture cloud security threats as bad actors in some hostile country. More often, it’s you and your coworkers.
Talk about cloud security and you’re likely to discuss provider-focused issues: not enough security, not enough auditing, not enough planning.
Published June 16, 2022
Shifting to the cloud? Multi-cloud environments enable organizations to expand their computing and storage capacities easily, but that comes with tradeoffs — topping the list: cybersecurity.
What makes cloud computing appealing is also a reason to worry.
Published June 15, 2022
New open source database details the software that cloud service providers typically silently install on enterprises' virtual machines — often unbeknownst to customers.
If cloud services weren't complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there's also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws.
Published June 1, 2022
Apache ActiveMQ is a free and open-source message broker developed by Apache Software Foundation. It is one of the well-known message brokers that supports multiple protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, Stomp, and OpenWire. It is written in Java and fully compliant with JMS 1.1 standards.
