Instead of just opening up closed-off systems via APIs, many businesses are looking to use event-based triggers as well to react to changes in real time. Competitive pressures are driving the need for new thinking when it comes to developing applications that help a business react in real time. Being able to make real-time decisions based on events is at the heart of those efforts.
API stands for application programming interface, which is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software.
IBM MQ is a family of message-oriented middleware products that IBM launched in December 1993. It was originally called MQSeries and was renamed WebSphere MQ in 2002 to join the suite of WebSphere products. In April 2014, it was renamed IBM MQ. The products included in the MQ family are IBM MQ, IBM MQ Advanced, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for z/OS, and IBM MQ on IBM Cloud. MQ stands for MESSAGING AND QUEUEING.
Kafka is an open-source program for storing, reading, and analyzing streaming data. It is open-source, which means it’s free-to-use amongst a big community of users and developers contributing to new features, upgrades, and support on a regular basis. Kafka can run on multiple servers as a distributed system, allowing it to take advantage of each server’s processing power and storage capacity.
Learning Apache Kafka doesn’t have to be difficult. Read on to get a friendly explanation of the Apache Kafka fundamentals.
First, let’s address the question of “What is TIBCO EMS?”. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) is designed to bring together computing services and assets in order to reduce the cost, time investment, and effort of integrating disparate services across cloud and locally based platforms. TIBCO EMS is one of the market-leading enterprise messaging systems that enable businesses to exchange information in real-time.
U.S. enterprises investing in the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly are starting out with long-term strategies instead of just discrete proofs of concept, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm. The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Internet of Things — Services and Solutions report for the U.S. finds a growing number of U.S.
In a DevOps environment, continuous testing is essential to success. By automating the testing process, you can release new, bug-free code faster, and more efficiently. In this software development tutorial, we will examine continuous testing, its benefits, and best practices.
“Nastel is uniquely placed when it comes to understanding the configuration information and message content of messaging middleware and integration infrastructure” — Saurabh Sharma, GigaOm Nastel Technologies, the world’s #1 i2M (Integration Infrastructure Management) company, today announced that it has been rated as a leader in GigaOm’s new Integration Infrastructure Management & Transaction Observability Sonar Report.
Last year we published this blog post about the benefits of IBM MQ streaming queues. On July 15th, 2022 this functionality was also made available for MQ on the mainframe (z/OS) and it’s also been announced for the MQ appliance for Aug 2nd, 2022. Nastel has been supporting and embracing this functionality for some time in its integration infrastructure management (i2M) platform.
The full form of MOM is Message-Oriented Middleware which is an infrastructure that allows communication and exchanges the data (messages). It involves the passing of data between applications using a communication channel that carries self-contained units of information (messages).In a MOM-based communication environment, messages are sent and received asynchronously.
When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow. Now, IBM has announced the new MQ Appliance, called M2003, with general availability on August 2, 2022.
Integration and middleware staffing issues within IT Operations and Service Delivery teams are common, even in the largest enterprises. Here is the story of one large enterprise.
In distributed systems, middleware is a software component that provides services between two or more applications and can be used by them. Middleware can be thought of as an application that sits between two separate applications and provides service to both. In this article, we will see a role of middleware in distributed systems.
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.
Total Economic Impact Study evaluates potential business benefits and cost savings enabled by Nastel’s Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) Platform.
What is DataPower used for? It provides security, control, integration and optimized access to a full range of mobile, web, application programming interface (API), service-oriented architecture (SOA), B2B and cloud workloads.
Many companies’ enterprise resource planning systems, which house their most valuable data, are still too vulnerable. What would happen if your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system were attacked? For many companies, the consequences would be devastating.
Apache Kafka provides an unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Installing Apache Kafka, especially the right configuration of Kafka Security including authentication and encryption is kind of a challenge. This should give a brief summary about our experience and lessons learned when trying to install and configure Apache Kafka, the right way.
Distributed systems are highly scalable and efficient — but only when integrated into a powerful network. A distributed system can only function if all its applications can communicate effectively with one another. However, this is often easier said than done due to the multi-layered nature of modern architectures. Modern architectures consist of applications written in various languages with different protocols, and they are spread across multi-cloud and multi-cluster environments.
Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.
RabbitMQ is an open source server that was created to support the AMQP 0.9.1 messaging protocol. It now supports other protocols as well, including MQTT 3.1.1, but AMQP 0.9.1 is its core method. So here we will compare AMQP 0.9.1 with MQTT. MQTT was designed for the Internet of Things (although it wasn’t called that at the time). Both MQTT and AMQP run over TCP connections, both are client-server in architecture and bi-directional.
Transaction tracking and tracing are not the same thing. One of the top 10 banks in the world recently chose Nastel and this was their primary reason. They had a Priority 1 request processor incident on the mainframe where high value messages went missing and it took two weeks to find them. They began by looking at another vendor who said that they did transaction tracking. As the customer said, "They will try to tell you that they do transaction tracking, and that took us a while to drill down." So, let me explain the difference between these terms using an analogy.
