Author

Scott Sternloff

Senior Enterprise Architect, AceMQ

Senior Enterprise Architect at AceMQ. Writes the technical coverage here: RabbitMQ, Kafka and Redis architecture, clustering and migrations.

Articles by Scott (107)

• PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: 12 Settings and What They Fix
• Amazon MQ vs Self-Hosted RabbitMQ: Cost, Limits, Support
• RabbitMQ to Kafka Migration: Tools, Cost and When to Stay
• Kafka Alternatives: Pulsar, Redpanda, RabbitMQ Streams, NATS
• Spring Boot 2.7: Upgrade or Extended Support?
• Kafka to Databricks: Stream Kafka Into Delta Lake
• MongoDB EOL: MongoDB End of Life Dates by Version
• Elasticsearch 7 End of Life: EOL Dates for 7.17, 8.x and 9.x
• ActiveMQ End of Life: Classic 5.x and Artemis EOL Status
• MariaDB End of Life: 10.6 EOL and Supported Versions
• Debezium Alternatives: CDC Tools Compared
• What Is RabbitMQ Used For? 9 Common Use Cases
• What Is Kafka Used For? 8 Common Use Cases
• Kafka Event-Driven Architecture: Patterns and Pitfalls
• MongoDB Backup: mongodump, Snapshots, Ops Manager and Atlas
• Redis on Kubernetes: Helm, Operators and Bitnami Changes
• How to Upgrade Node.js: nvm, Package Managers and Docker
• Redis Persistence: RDB vs AOF, Config and Trade-offs
• Redis Architecture: Event Loop, Threads and Replication
• vSphere 7 End of Life: Dates, Extended Options and Renewal Costs
• MongoDB Migration: Upgrades, Atlas Moves and Backups
• Redis Alternatives: Open Source Options Compared (2026)
• RabbitMQ Cluster Operator vs Helm Chart on Kubernetes
• RabbitMQ Alternatives: 9 Options and When to Stay
• Kafka Architecture: Brokers, Partitions and KRaft
• Redis Cluster: Hash Slots, Sharding and Operations
• What Is Redis Used For? 7 Common Use Cases
• Redis vs Memcached: Which Cache Should You Use?
• Postgres EOL: PostgreSQL End of Life Dates by Version
• MySQL 8.0 End of Life and MySQL 5.7 EOL: Dates and Options
• Spring Boot EOL Dates: 3.5, 2.7 and 4.x End of Life (2026)
• Tomcat 9 End of Life: 31 March 2027, Plus 8.5 and 10 EOL Dates
• Node.js End of Life: Node 20, 18 and 16 EOL Dates
• Azure Cache for Redis Retirement: Dates and Options
• RabbitMQ consumer_timeout: Why Consumers Vanish
• Redis EOL: End of Life Dates and Supported Versions
• Apache Kafka End of Life: Supported Versions in 2026
• RabbitMQ Incident Response: The First 15 Minutes
• RabbitMQ Dead Letter Queues: Enterprise Guide
• RabbitMQ Federation vs Shovel for Disaster Recovery
• Production RabbitMQ Architecture for Enterprise Teams
• RabbitMQ Exchange Types, Queues & Bindings for Microservices
• RabbitMQ Virtual Hosts for Tenant Isolation
• Kafka Security Best Practices: SASL, mTLS, ACLs, Encryption
• Kafka Exactly-Once Semantics: How It Works vs At-Least-Once
• Kafka Retention Policy: 7-Day Default, retention.ms, Cleanup
• Why Not Use RabbitMQ? Real Limits and Kafka Myths
• Kafka Partition Key and Partitioning Strategy: How to Choose
• Kafka Disaster Recovery: Architectures, RPO/RTO, Testing
• Running RabbitMQ on Azure: Your Real Hosting Options
• What Kafka Support Actually Covers (and Doesn't)
• Redis and Valkey Support Providers Compared: SLA and Pricing
• What Redis Support Actually Covers (and Doesn't)
• Kafka Health Check: What a Real Assessment Covers
• Redis 24/7 Incident Response
• RabbitMQ vs Kafka: Comparison Table and How to Choose
• RabbitMQ Quorum Queues Explained: How They Work
• Kafka to RabbitMQ Migration: What It Actually Takes
• Six Things People Still Get Wrong About RabbitMQ
• What a Boomi Integration Assessment Actually Finds
• Redis Health Check: What It Finds
• Why RabbitMQ Is the Best Migration Path Off IBM MQ
• RabbitMQ Architecture Design for Scale
• Messaging on Kubernetes: Why It Is Hard
• ActiveMQ Classic vs Artemis: What Actually Changed
• RabbitMQ Migration Readiness 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
• Migrating 100+ Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL
• IBM MQ End of Support Dates by Version
• ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ: Protocols, HA, Licence, Support
• RabbitMQ vs Azure Service Bus: When to Move
• Redis Message Queue: Can It Replace a Broker?
• Redis Troubleshooting: Production Issues
• Redis Memory Usage: Fragmentation, maxmemory and Sizing
• Redis Enterprise vs Community Support
• Kafka on Kubernetes: EKS vs AKS vs GKE
• RabbitMQ Message Loss: Can It Happen? Durability Explained
• Kafka vs Pulsar: Which to Choose
• RabbitMQ on EKS vs AKS vs GKE
• Redis and RabbitMQ Together
• Kafka Consumer Lag: Causes and Fixes
• RabbitMQ CVEs: What Needs Patching
• VVF vs VCF: Price per Core, What Is Included (2026)
• Kafka Rebalance: Triggers and How to Stop It
• RabbitMQ Prefetch Count: Optimal Configuration
• IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Broker Fits
• RabbitMQ Streams: Performance, Tuning and Kafka Compared
• Redis Eviction Policy: noeviction, LRU, LFU and How to Choose
• Top 5 Things for RabbitMQ Kubernetes Monitoring
• Erlang 26 EOL: Legacy RabbitMQ Unpatchable
• RabbitMQ End of Life and End of Support Dates (3.6 to 4.4)
• Redis HA: Sentinel vs Cluster, What Breaks
• RabbitMQ Issues and Troubleshooting: 12 Problems Fixed
• RabbitMQ on Kubernetes & OpenShift: Deployment
• RabbitMQ Legacy Version Support: What Coverage Should Include
• RabbitMQ High Availability: Sizing, Failover Tests and DR
• RabbitMQ Quorum Queues: Migrating from Classic Queues in 4.x
• RabbitMQ Upgrades and Patches: 3.x to 4.x Without Downtime
• What RabbitMQ Support Should Include: A Buyer's Guide