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Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T16:07:23-04:00July 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 […]
John Ghilino2026-07-10T10:19:06-04:00July 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. […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T16:06:46-04:00July 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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