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Improving Productivity Through Smart, Safe Self-Service
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Improving Productivity Through Smart, Safe Self-Service

Infrared360® Blog, Middleware Mash-Up

Improving Productivity Through Smart, Safe Self-Service

How to Improve Productivity Across IT with Smart, Safe Self-Service There was a time when IT self-service was considered inconvenient. In the early days, when the underlying technology was often slow, erratic, and [...]

By John Ghilino|November 2nd, 2021|

IBM Community Festival 2021
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IBM Community Festival 2021

Conferences & Events, IBM Community, Infrared360® Blog

IBM Community Festival 2021

If you're not familiar with the IBM Community, it's a collaborative space for IBM users that makes sharing of know-how and best practices on IBM products and IT interests simpler. As a member, you can [...]

By Scott Treggiari|October 30th, 2021|Tags: IBM Community, IBM Community Festival 2021, IBM Expert TV|

Managing Middleware in Hybrid Cloud
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Managing Middleware in Hybrid Cloud

General, Infrared360® Blog, Middleware Mash-Up

Managing Middleware in Hybrid Cloud

Managing Middleware in Hybrid Cloud Presented by Peter D’Agosta, Co-Founder & Chief Product Manager, Avada Software Organizations often a choose hybrid cloud architecture over “fully-in-the-cloud” environments to keep corporate assets secure and [...]

By John Ghilino|July 20th, 2021|

Integrating data in the Cloud with IBM App Connect
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Integrating data in the Cloud with IBM App Connect

Infrared360® Blog, Middleware Mash-Up

Integrating data in the Cloud with IBM App Connect

Integrating data in the Cloud with IBM App Connect Presented by Shreyas Shah, IBM Offering Manager, Hybrid Integration As your business evolves, varying architectures, apps and data types can make it difficult [...]

By John Ghilino|July 20th, 2021|

Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers
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Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers

Infrared360® Blog, Middleware Mash-Up

Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers

Transforming Your IBM MQ Estate Using Containers Earlier this year at Middleware Mash-Up David Ware, Chief Architect of IBM MQ presented a session on IBM MQ in Containers. During the session he [...]

By John Ghilino|July 20th, 2021|

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Middleware Performance Testing: Using Synthetic Transactions to Validate Message Flow, Routing, and Middleware Health
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Middleware Performance Testing: Using Synthetic Transactions to Validate Message Flow, Routing, and Middleware Health

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Scott Treggiari2026-07-07T15:36:05-04:00July 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 […]

Inspect Protobuf Kafka Messages Without Schema Registry
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Inspect Protobuf Kafka Messages Without Schema Registry

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Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T16:06:01-04:00July 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 […]

Secure MQ Administration: Why MQ Monitoring Alone Isn’t Enough
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Secure MQ Administration: Why MQ Monitoring Alone Isn’t Enough

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Scott Treggiari2026-07-01T15:06:15-04:00July 1st, 2026|

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 monitoring dashboard.

General-purpose observability and monitoring tools can be useful. They can show performance metrics, alert on availability, […]

IBM MQ Configuration Drift: Detect and Prevent It with Infrared360
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IBM MQ Configuration Drift: Detect and Prevent It with Infrared360

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Scott Treggiari2026-06-29T10:06:33-04:00June 29th, 2026|

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 depth change, missing backout queue, altered server connection channel, different TLS setting, or inconsistent authority record […]

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

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Scott Treggiari2026-06-17T13:53:43-04:00June 17th, 2026|

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 are flowing as expected.

A queue can be “up” while messages are aging. A […]

What It Takes to Run IBM MQ Pipelines in Production (and Why You Need an IBM MQ Monitoring Solution)
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What It Takes to Run IBM MQ Pipelines in Production (and Why You Need an IBM MQ Monitoring Solution)

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Scott Treggiari2026-06-03T11:15:01-04:00June 3rd, 2026|

This is Part 6 of a 6-part series exploring how to use IBM MQ as a reliable ingestion layer for AI and RAG.
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What It Takes to Run IBM MQ Pipelines in Production (and Why You Need an IBM MQ Monitoring Solution)

Running IBM MQ in production has always required discipline.

But when MQ […]

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