Protobuf Visibility Without Schema Registry: A More Flexible Way to Inspect Kafka Records This is Part 1 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Next Article Protocol Buffers, usually called Protobuf, give development teams an efficient way to serialize structured data. A .proto file defines the fields, types, [...]
Secure MQ Administration: Why MQ Monitoring Alone Isn’t Enough For enterprise IT leaders, IBM MQ is often one of the most critical layers in the technology stack. It moves high-value transactions, connects core systems, and supports applications that the business cannot afford to interrupt. That is why secure MQ administration requires more than another [...]
IBM MQ Configuration Drift: How to Detect and Prevent It with Infrared360 Configuration drift happens when IBM MQ queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, security records, or other object definitions no longer match the approved baseline. In IBM MQ environments, configuration drift can create operational risk, security exposure, compliance gaps, and avoidable troubleshooting work. A queue [...]
Middleware Performance: What Experienced Teams Monitor, Manage, and Automate Middleware performance is not just about whether servers are up or whether an application appears available. For teams responsible for IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, IBM App Connect Enterprise, application servers, and related integration infrastructure, middleware performance is about whether messages, events, transactions, and dependent services [...]
This is Part 6 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG. For the full article, click here | Previous Article What It Takes to Run IBM MQ Pipelines in Production (and Why You Need an IBM MQ Monitoring Solution) Running IBM [...]
This is Part 5 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG. For the full article, click here | Previous Article | Next Article IBM MQ Access Control for AI Pipelines: Managing Visibility Across Teams As IBM MQ becomes part of AI [...]
This is Part 4 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG.For the full article, click here | Previous Article | Next Article Test IBM MQ Messages for AI: How to Validate the Ingestion Path When IBM MQ feeds an AI or RAG [...]
This is Part 3 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG.For the full article, click here | Previous Article | Next Article Monitoring IBM MQ for AI: What to Watch and Why It Matters When IBM MQ becomes part of an AI [...]
This is Part 2 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG. For the full article, click here | Previous Article | Next Article Designing an IBM MQ RAG Architecture That Actually Works Using IBM MQ in AI pipelines is not about connecting [...]
MQ Traffic Switching Visibility: Reducing Risk During Data Center Failover When enterprises move application traffic from one data center to another, the release or operations workflow may look controlled on the surface. A change window is opened. A runbook is followed. A release orchestration tool launches a workflow. Scripts are executed. Statuses are checked. [...]
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