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 June 15, 2020
It’s been four years since IBM MQ introduced Continuous Delivery (CD) and Long Term Support (LTS) releases.
The main objective was to give MQ users a choice between getting access to the latest and greatest features sooner than later (CD) or using a stable environment that had only bug fixes (LTS).
Published June 15, 2020
Previously I wrote about the difference in technology today compared to when MQ first came out. One of the areas that is most notable is network speed and how that relates to I/O as well as reliability.
Published May 27, 2020
It is amazing how MQ has managed to stay relevant over all of these years. Looking back to when it first came out in the 1990's, we were dealing with 2400 baud modems connected to remote locations running a number of different technologies, over spotty telephone lines using token ring protocols.
Published May 13, 2020
We have seen a lot of usage of MQ Internet Pass-Thru gateway, MQIPT. MQIPT was originally released as a support pack (MS81) and is delivered as a standard feature of MQ (MQ 9.1.4). The support pack will no longer be supported after September 2020.
Note, that it is possible to use MQIPT from 9.1.4 and later with earlier versions of MQ.
Published May 8, 2020
Recently I have setup test environments on both the IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka cloud offerings. For both of these the setup was quick and simple.
Since many applications today are using client connections, switching from a locally hosted service to a cloud offering was as simple as changing the connection URL.
Published April 6, 2020
COVID - 19 It’s a fact of life that new shiny things are more interesting that old, dull things. And yet it’s the boring stuff that keeps the world working. Once the problems have been ironed out and technology just works, it’s a lot less interesting for innovators to “play” with.
