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Blog2026-09-09T21:19:28-04:00

Confluent Message Browser vs. Infrared360 for Protobuf

Confluent Message Browser vs. Infrared360: Two Protobuf Inspection Workflows This is Part 4 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A useful product comparison [...]

By |August 3rd, 2026|
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The Middleware Blog

July 15th, 2026|

A practical evaluation guide for MQ engineers comparing monitoring and administration platforms

If you are evaluating an IBM MQ monitoring and administration solution, you probably do not need another tool that only displays queue depth. You need a faster and safer way to see what is happening across the MQ estate, investigate incidents, take approved action, share the right level of visibility with other teams, and retain evidence of what […]

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July 13th, 2026|

Why Risk and Operations Teams Inspect Business Values Inside Kafka Records This is Part 3 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A risk or operations team does not inspect Kafka message content merely because the technology makes it possible. The team inspects content when the business needs evidence that a […]

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July 10th, 2026|

IBM MQ Appliance M2004: What MQ Teams Should Know About the New Release IBM has announced the IBM MQ Appliance M2004, a new hardware model designed to support higher messaging performance, modern memory architecture, and expanded network connectivity for enterprise MQ environments. [1]

For MQ teams managing high-volume messaging, business-critical workloads, and resilient infrastructure, this release is worth reviewing as part of future capacity planning, modernization, and appliance lifecycle strategy. […]

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July 9th, 2026|

Kafka Monitoring Can Show the Symptom. Protobuf Record Inspection Can Reveal the Cause This is Part 2 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article Kafka operations teams depend on monitoring because distributed streaming systems can fail in many ways. Brokers can become unavailable, partitions can lose preferred leaders, consumers can lag, […]

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July 7th, 2026|

Middleware Performance: What Experienced Teams Monitor, Manage, and Automate

Middleware performance testing is the practice of validating how messaging and integration infrastructure behaves under realistic transaction patterns—not just whether a queue manager, broker, channel, or application endpoint is technically “up.” IBM’s documentation on monitoring your IBM MQ network emphasizes the value of gathering statistics and operational information to understand how the MQ network is running and to improve performance.[1]

For […]

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July 6th, 2026|

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, and relationships that make the binary data meaningful. The tradeoff is that […]

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