With messaging software, developers can build communication into their applications using a variety of message exchange patterns and a range of qualities-of-service.
10 November 2025
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Explore different IBM MQ queue manager resilience options, with enough background details for you to make the right choice whether you are a seasoned MQ administrator or an application developer coming to the product for the first time.
07 November 2025
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Learn what a CCDT is and how to set one up. Also, learn about the role that CCDTs play in messaging applications and specific considerations developers need to make when using them in a uniform cluster setting.
09 October 2025
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Discover a robust retry mechanism for microservices, addressing network issues, microservice lag, and service downtime. Learn about our pragmatic approach using exponential backoff, batch jobs, and a 24-hour recovery system, ensuring visibility, controlled load, and minimal infrastructure overhead. Understand why Kafka and event-driven architecture weren't suitable for our needs.
27 August 2025
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Explore asynchronous messaging and its importance in an enterprise context. Learn about the role that message queues play in this context and the advantages of queues for asynchronous messaging over other technologies.
26 August 2025
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IBM MQ is extremely well suited to creating a messaging network. IBM MQ was designed specifically for this purpose decades ago with messaging network capabilities built in to queue managers, channels, and clusters.
20 August 2025
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Explore the different exchanges that can be carried out over a single message queue.
29 July 2025
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In this article, we present some top tips for implementing, debugging, and operating applications with Event Streams.
22 July 2025
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Explore the typical high-level event driven architecture (EDA) usage patterns for Apache Kafka. We will also look at how these usage patterns typically mature over time to handle issues such as topic governance, stream processing, and AI.
06 May 2025
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Scale your event-driven applications more elegantly with KEDA, a lightweight, open source solution that automatically scales your containers on Kubernetes.
22 April 2025
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Explore how to use the DMPMQMSG tool to take messages from streaming queues for further analysis. Also, learn more about a specialized streaming queues use case, message replay.
13 February 2025
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In this article, we'll look at what streaming queues are and how they allow you to build more sophisticated messaging solutions.
01 November 2024
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To effectively design a resilient solution that optimally uses the transaction capabilities that are provided by MQ and JMS, you need to understand several key concepts. This article introduces you to these concepts and explains how they interact.
