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 (70)

• RabbitMQ Dead Letter Queues: Enterprise Guide
• RabbitMQ Federation vs Shovel for Disaster Recovery
• Production RabbitMQ Architecture for Enterprise Teams
• RabbitMQ Exchanges, Queues & Bindings for Microservices
• RabbitMQ Virtual Hosts for Tenant Isolation
• Kafka Security Best Practices: SASL, ACLs & Encryption
• Kafka Exactly-Once Semantics: How It Works & Its Limits
• Kafka Retention Policy: Time-Based & Size-Based Config
• Why Not Use RabbitMQ? Real Limits and Kafka Myths
• Kafka Partition Strategy: Sizing, Keys & Hot Partitions
• Kafka Disaster Recovery: Architectures, RPO/RTO, Testing
• Running RabbitMQ on Azure: Your Real Hosting Options
• What Kafka Support Actually Covers (and Doesn't)
• Who Supports Open-Source Redis? Providers Compared
• What Redis Support Actually Covers (and Doesn't)
• Kafka Health Check: What a Real Assessment Covers
• Redis 24/7 Incident Response
• RabbitMQ vs Kafka: What Decides It
• RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues
• Kafka to RabbitMQ Migration: What It Actually Takes
• Exchanges vs Partitions: RabbitMQ vs Kafka
• 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: Which Broker Fits
• RabbitMQ vs Azure Service Bus: When to Move
• Redis Message Queue: Can It Replace a Broker?
• Redis Troubleshooting: Production Issues
• Redis Memory Problems and Sizing
• Redis Enterprise vs Community Support
• Kafka on Kubernetes: EKS vs AKS vs GKE
• Can RabbitMQ Lose Messages? Durability
• 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
• VMware Cloud Foundation vs vSphere Foundation: Which Tier?
• Kafka Rebalance: Triggers and How to Stop It
• RabbitMQ Prefetch Count: Optimal Configuration
• IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Broker Fits
• RabbitMQ Streams vs Kafka: Architecture Guide
• Redis Eviction Policy: Which to Use
• Top 5 Things for RabbitMQ Kubernetes Monitoring
• Erlang 26 EOL: Legacy RabbitMQ Unpatchable
• RabbitMQ End of Life: Is 3.x Still Safe to Run?
• Redis HA: Sentinel vs Cluster, What Breaks
• RabbitMQ Troubleshooting: 12 Production Issues
• RabbitMQ on Kubernetes & OpenShift: Deployment
• RabbitMQ Legacy Version Support: What Coverage Should Include
• RabbitMQ HA & Disaster Recovery: Cluster Sizing
• RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues: Migration Guide
• Upgrading RabbitMQ 3.x to 4.x Without Downtime
• What RabbitMQ Support Should Include: A Buyer's Guide