Author

Scott Sternloff

Senior Enterprise Architect, AceMQ

Senior Enterprise Architect at AceMQ. Writes the technical coverage here — RabbitMQ, Kafka and Redis architecture, clustering, migrations, performance and production troubleshooting.

Articles by Scott (55)

• Kafka Health Check: What a Real Assessment Covers
• Redis 24/7 Incident Response: What Actually Happens at 3am
• RabbitMQ vs Kafka: What Actually Decides It in Production
• RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues: Which to Use and When
• Kafka to RabbitMQ Migration: What It Actually Takes
• Exchanges vs Partitions: How RabbitMQ and Kafka Route Messages
• Six Things People Still Get Wrong About RabbitMQ
• What a Boomi Integration Assessment Actually Finds
• Redis Health Check Assessment: What the Diagnostic Process Actually Finds
• Why RabbitMQ Is the Best Migration Path Off IBM MQ
• RabbitMQ Architecture Design for Future-State Scale: A Planning Framework
• Messaging on Kubernetes: Why RabbitMQ and Kafka Are Hard to Run
• ActiveMQ Classic vs Artemis: What Actually Changed
• RabbitMQ Migration Readiness Assessment: The Pre-Cutover Checklist
• What Breaks in a Multi-Version Elasticsearch Upgrade
• Why Does Redis Memory Keep Growing With Flat Keys?
• Why Is My Redis Client Timing Out When Healthy?
• Should I Migrate from Redis to Valkey?
• Redis on VMware: Anti-Affinity Rules You Need
• What Causes a Kafka Producer Timeout, and the Fix
• Is Kafka 4.0 (KRaft, No ZooKeeper) Production-Ready?
• Is the Bitnami Image I'm Running Actually Secure?
• My Spring Boot Is EOL: CVE Patch Options
• How Do I Migrate 100+ Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL?
• IBM MQ End of Support Dates: Which Versions Are Still Covered
• ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Message Broker Fits Your Architecture
• RabbitMQ vs Azure Service Bus: Cost, Control, and When to Move
• Redis Message Queue: Can Redis Replace a Real Broker?
• Redis Troubleshooting: Production Issues and How to Fix Them
• Redis Memory Problems: Why It Crashes and How to Size It
• Redis Enterprise Support vs Community: What You Actually Get
• Kafka on Kubernetes: EKS vs AKS vs GKE
• Can RabbitMQ Lose Messages? RabbitMQ Message Durability Explained
• Kafka vs Pulsar: Architecture, Operations, and Which to Choose
• RabbitMQ on EKS vs AKS vs GKE: Choosing a Managed Kubernetes Provider
• Redis and RabbitMQ Together: Caching Alongside Messaging
• Kafka Consumer Lag: Causes, Monitoring, and How to Reduce It
• RabbitMQ CVEs: What Actually Needs Patching, and How Fast
• VMware Cloud Foundation vs vSphere Foundation: Which Tier Do You Need?
• Kafka Rebalance: What Triggers It and How to Stop the Storms
• RabbitMQ Prefetch Count: Optimal Configuration
• IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Message Broker Fits Your Architecture
• RabbitMQ Streams vs Kafka: Architecture Guide
• Redis Eviction Policy: Which One to Use and How to Configure It
• Top 5 Things for RabbitMQ Kubernetes Monitoring
• Erlang 26 End of Life: Why Legacy RabbitMQ Is Now Unpatchable
• RabbitMQ End of Life: Supported Versions and What to Do About 3.x
• Redis High Availability: Sentinel vs Cluster, Failover, and What Breaks
• RabbitMQ Troubleshooting: 12 Production Issues
• RabbitMQ on Kubernetes & OpenShift: Deployment
• RabbitMQ Legacy Support: Any Scale or Version
• RabbitMQ HA & Disaster Recovery: Cluster Sizing
• RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues: Migration Guide
• Upgrading RabbitMQ 3.x to 4.x Without Downtime
• RabbitMQ Support: Your Reliable Messaging Guide