Resources
Foreward by: Nick D’Amico, Brand Architect, DX Former Sr. UX Designer, Adobe
This research-backed whitepaper shows architects, SREs, and platform teams how to create clearer middleware dashboards by replacing decorative visuals with practical, interactive data displays. Readers will learn why simple charts, orderly layouts, semantic color, and features like drill-downs, hover details, and time-window controls help teams diagnose issues faster and make better decisions during production incidents.
Justin Reock,
Deputy CTO, DX
Justin provides a vendor-neutral comparison of Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Kafka to help guide your middleware evaluation. This whitepaper highlights architectural differences, ideal use cases, performance considerations, and best practices. Whether you are modernizing legacy systems, building real-time event streaming applications, or designing a hybrid architecture, this guide gives you the clarity to choose the right fit for your organization.
Nick Glowacki, Executive IT Specialist, IBM
Nick covers the essentials of IBM MQ’s role in securely transferring sensitive data, emphasizing the importance of resiliency. He discusses the various high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) options, including clustering, Multi-Instance Queue Managers, Replicated Data Queue Managers, and Native HA, detailing the infrastructure needs, benefits, and challenges of each. Nick’s insights help attendees identify the best options for their business needs.
Nigel Henderson, Certified IBM® MQ Administrator, Consultant
Nigel explores the complexities of naming standards within IBM MQ, emphasizing the importance of well-structured conventions for efficient problem resolution. He guides you through various components like queue managers, channels, and queues, and highlights the benefits of organized administration. A well-maintained glossary and clear understanding aid both technical and non-technical people. Read his paper to learn best practices and insights.
David Corbett, Certified MQ Solution Designer and MQ
Administrator, USBank (Retired)
Dave discusses how IBM® MQ facilitates real-time transmission of data across different OS platforms, but this creates issues in tracking down problems as the data has to traverse different systems with varying architectures and administered by personnel with different skill sets, leading to a lack of collaboration and a slower resolution of issues. Learn some tips to navigate these challenges.
Peter D’Agosta, Co-Founder & Chief Product Manager, Avada Software
Peter provides an overview of Kafka® and the importance of observability in agile infrastructures, along with the benefits of using modern cloud-native monitoring tools to improve business outcomes; this session covers topics such as monitoring needs, setting conditions and thresholds, creating alerting scenarios, enabling self-service and automated incident resolution, creating useful dashboards, organizing users and assets for management best practices, and some cool tricks using Infrared360 for Dev/test and other non-prod teams.
Nick Felicione, Senior Vice President, Information Design, Inc. (IDI)
Watch this session now as Nick discusses the best practices for maintaining an MQ infrastructure that can result in cost savings, improved resource utilization, and investment protection, covering topics such as updates, security vulnerabilities, dead letter queue review, licensing, alternate MQ offerings, and protection from audits.
Arnold Shoon, Solutions Director at TxMQ
The shift from on-premises supported large software systems to the cloud, containers, and the API economy has challenged slow-moving organizations to adopt new methodologies like agile integration and DevOps to stay competitive, making it difficult for heavily invested Integration & Operations teams with rigid architectures such as SOA to find the right tools and frameworks to modernize. Arnold discusses the importance of APIs, benefits of utilizing more agile development, integration and deployment methods, and available tools for transitioning into the API Economy.
Naomi Scott, Offering Manager at IBM
Naomi discusses the challenge of maintaining reliability and performance levels while reducing costs in growing workloads and complex distributed environments. This session contrasts the benefits of an alternative deployment option to traditional messaging software that can produce cost savings and provide a demonstration on how to stay ahead of performance and reliability issues across the entire distributed enterprise messaging environment, covering topics such as cost-saving options, critical KPIs, best practices for monitoring and managing distributed enterprise messaging.
Middleware Guides
The Complete Guide to IBM MQ Monitoring
Guide to Clearing the IBM® MQ Dead Letter Queue
Guide to Middleware Monitoring: Everything You Need to Know
Advanced KPIs for ActiveMQ: A Guide for Senior Architects, Admins, Developers, & Engineers
MQ Traffic Switching Visibility: Reducing Risk During Data Center Failover
About The Speakers:
Naomi Scott
Product Manager at IBM
Naomi sets the direction for the MQ Appliance, which is part of IBM’s widely-adopted MQ portfolio. Over her 9 years at IBM she has worked in Integration, with most of that time focusing on Messaging. She collaborates with a range of multi-disciplinary teams and customers to deliver value for IBM clients around the world.
Peter D’Agosta
Cofounder/COO and Product Manager at Avada Software
Peter D’Agosta has been in IT for 35 years. His background includes application and systems programming, enterprise architecture, consulting, management, analysis, strategic 24/7 systems including airline, banking, and internet, as well as technology innovation. Peter oversaw infrastructures for airlines, branch banking, and online service companies before moving into the software vendor arena where he worked with new innovations in email, messaging, portal and web service technology. Interspersed with engagements for some of the world’s largest companies, Peter’s varied background provides him a unique perspective in applied technology.