What topics does the AceMQ blog cover?

The AceMQ blog covers technical topics across the enterprise messaging queuing space, written from the perspective of Senior Enterprise Architects who manage production deployments daily. Content categories include RabbitMQ deep dives (quorum queue configuration, cluster sizing, Kubernetes deployment with the Cluster Operator, version upgrade guides, AMQP protocol internals, Broadcom licensing explained), Kafka architecture (producer and consumer tuning, Kafka Streams patterns, CDC pipelines with Debezium, ZooKeeper to KRaft migration, schema registry best practices), Redis engineering (Sentinel vs Cluster decision framework, memory optimization strategies, Redis Streams for event sourcing, TLS and ACL hardening), messaging architecture design (event-driven patterns, saga orchestration, outbox pattern for distributed transactions, dead-letter handling strategies), and operational best practices (monitoring stack setup with Prometheus and Grafana, incident response runbooks, change management frameworks for production broker upgrades). Articles are technical and practitioner-focused — not introductory marketing content.

Who writes the AceMQ blog articles?

AceMQ blog articles are authored by Senior Enterprise Architects and subject matter experts who work daily with enterprise messaging systems across finance, healthcare, retail, telecom, defense, and manufacturing. These are practitioners who have personally managed RabbitMQ clusters with hundreds of millions of messages per day, designed Kafka pipelines for large-scale data streaming, and responded to production incidents at 2am for global enterprises. Authors draw from direct field experience rather than documentation synthesis, which means blog content frequently covers undocumented behavior, real-world tradeoffs, and lessons from production failures that are not captured in official documentation. AceMQ also publishes content authored or reviewed by members of the RabbitMQ Core Engineering Team through its Featured Authorized Partner relationship, giving readers access to insights directly from the engineers who build and maintain the broker.

How can the AceMQ blog help my engineering team?

The AceMQ blog is designed to help engineering and DevOps teams solve specific, recurring challenges in production messaging environments. Engineers use it to diagnose production issues faster — many articles document root causes and resolution steps for common RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis failure modes, saving hours of debugging time. Architects use it to make better design decisions — articles compare queue types, deployment patterns, and HA configurations with concrete tradeoffs grounded in production experience rather than theoretical comparisons. Operations teams use it to build more robust runbooks — content on monitoring setup, alert thresholds, upgrade procedures, and incident response frameworks gives teams a starting point that reflects real-world operational maturity. Engineering managers and CTOs use it to build the business case for investment in messaging infrastructure — articles explain the cost of inadequate HA configuration, the risk of running unsupported broker versions, and the ROI of proactive monitoring over reactive incident response. Subscribe to the AceMQ blog to stay current with updates across RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis.

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9 Jan 2026

Mastering RabbitMQ Licensing: Cost, Commercial Versions, and Custom Solutions with Tanzu and AceMQ

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9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Kafka to RabbitMQ Migration: What It Actually Takes

Migrating from Kafka to RabbitMQ is an architecture change, not a reconfiguration. What ports cleanly, what gets redesigned, and how to scope it honestly..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Exchanges vs Partitions: How RabbitMQ and Kafka Route Messages

RabbitMQ routes on the broker; Kafka routes in the producer. What that means for wildcards, thousands of subjects, protocol reach and where the logic lives..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Six Things People Still Get Wrong About RabbitMQ

Six claims about RabbitMQ that were true a decade ago and are not now — throughput, memory, retention, exactly-once, Erlang, and the queuing split..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues: Which to Use and When

RabbitMQ classic vs quorum queues compared on durability, replication, memory and throughput — plus what a conversion actually costs..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

RabbitMQ vs Kafka: What Actually Decides It in Production

RabbitMQ vs Kafka from engineers who run both in production: the durability difference most comparisons skip, per-message control, and where RabbitMQ actually loses..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

What a Boomi Integration Assessment Actually Finds

Real findings from AceMQ Boomi + RabbitMQ integration assessments: listener stalls, a dropped frame_max, a stuck queue, and the observability gap behind them..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Health Check Assessment: What the Diagnostic Process Actually Finds

What a structured Redis health check assessment actually does: reproduce the incident, correlate metrics, isolate the cause, then fix it safely..

9 Jan 2026

IBM MQ

Why RabbitMQ Is the Best Migration Path Off IBM MQ

IBM MQ's per-core licensing and closed protocol lock you in. See why RabbitMQ is the strongest IBM MQ migration path, and how AceMQ makes the move low-risk..

9 Jan 2026

VMware

VMware License Renewal Process: How It Actually Works

How the VMware license renewal process actually works: anniversary dates, what triggers repricing, documentation to gather, and when to start..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Architecture Design for Future-State Scale: A Planning Framework

How to plan RabbitMQ architecture design for 5-10x future load: cluster topology, quorum queue sizing, multi-region federation, and a rollout plan..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ 24/7 Support: How to Evaluate an SLA Before You Sign

What does "24/7 RabbitMQ support" really mean? How to read severity tiers, response vs. resolution time, and escalation paths before you sign an SLA..

9 Jan 2026

IBM MQ

IBM MQ Licensing Cost: How PVU-Based Pricing Actually Works

How IBM MQ's PVU licensing model works, what drives cost up beyond the license line, and why lifecycle pressure adds to the total cost picture..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Messaging on Kubernetes: Why RabbitMQ and Kafka Are Hard to Run

RabbitMQ and Kafka are stateful workloads fighting Kubernetes' cattle-not-pets model. What breaks: PVCs, rebalances, rolling updates — and how to fix it..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ Classic vs Artemis: What Actually Changed

ActiveMQ Classic vs Artemis compared on architecture, governance and what changes for operators — including Apache's 2025 split into two top-level projects..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Migration Readiness Assessment: The Pre-Cutover Checklist

What to check before a major RabbitMQ migration: topology and dependency inventory, risk assessment, rollback planning, and load validation before cutover..

9 Jan 2026

IBM MQ

IBM MQ End of Support Dates: Which Versions Are Still Covered

IBM MQ end of support dates by version: what LTS and Extended Support actually cover, when 9.1 and 9.2 run out, and the three options once your version is past it..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Message Broker Fits Your Architecture

ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ compared on protocols, JMS, clustering and performance — including why ActiveMQ Classic and Artemis are two different products..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ vs Azure Service Bus: Cost, Control, and When to Move

RabbitMQ vs Azure Service Bus compared on cost model, control, latency, compliance and lock-in — with real migrations we have run in both directions..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Message Queue: Can Redis Replace a Real Broker?

Can Redis be used as a message queue? Build a Redis message queue on Lists, Pub/Sub or Streams — what each guarantees and when you need a broker..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Troubleshooting: Production Issues and How to Fix Them

Redis troubleshooting guide with the diagnostic command for each failure: OOM errors, blocked event loop, evictions, replication lag, and connection limits..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Memory Problems: Why It Crashes and How to Size It

Why Redis memory usage kills instances that look half-empty: maxmemory scope, fork copy-on-write, fragmentation, and how to size an instance..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Enterprise Support vs Community: What You Actually Get

Redis enterprise support vs community: response targets, severity scope, version lifecycle, and how to judge a Redis support contract before signing..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Kafka on Kubernetes: EKS vs AKS vs GKE

Kafka on Kubernetes compared across EKS, AKS and GKE: operators, storage classes, rack awareness, advertised listeners, and when managed Kafka wins..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Can RabbitMQ Lose Messages? RabbitMQ Message Durability Explained

RabbitMQ message durability explained end to end: durable queues, persistent delivery mode, publisher confirms, acks, quorum queues, and where each link breaks..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Kafka vs Pulsar: Architecture, Operations, and Which to Choose

Kafka vs Pulsar compared on architecture, multi-tenancy, geo-replication, tiered storage and operational burden — with an honest read on ecosystem maturity..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

RabbitMQ Streams vs Kafka: Which One Your Architecture Actually Needs

RabbitMQ Streams and Apache Kafka both give you a replayable log. The real difference is routing versus throughput — and which one your team can operate..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Broadcom's 72-Core Minimum: How Smaller RabbitMQ Deployments Get Licensed

Broadcom's 72-core minimum order size applies to Tanzu RabbitMQ the same as every other core-based product in the portfolio — here's what that means below the floor..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Tanzu RabbitMQ vs Open Source: Real Cost at 50, 100 and 500 Cores

Broadcom doesn't publish a Tanzu RabbitMQ rate card — here's what actually moves the number at 50, 100, and 500 cores: the 72-core floor, term length, and support tier..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ on EKS vs AKS vs GKE: Choosing a Managed Kubernetes Provider

RabbitMQ's own docs don't distinguish between EKS, AKS, and GKE. Here's where they actually differ: storage class defaults, availability-zone topology, and load balancer behavior..

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis and RabbitMQ Together: Caching Alongside Messaging

Redis and RabbitMQ solve different problems and are often run side by side, not as alternatives. Here's when to use each, and when to run both..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ CVEs: What Actually Needs Patching, and How Fast

How to assess a RabbitMQ CVE properly — which versions are affected, what a real MQTT authorization bypass means, and why a blanket 48-hour patch rule is the wrong test..

9 Jan 2026

VMware

VMware Licensing Changes: What Broadcom's Model Means for Your Renewal

VMware licensing changes under Broadcom explained: perpetual retired, 160+ products cut to a few tiers, per-core pricing and the 16-core min….

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis High Availability: Sentinel vs Cluster, Failover, and What Breaks

How Redis high availability actually works — Sentinel, Cluster, and replication compared, plus the failover and memory failures that take pr….

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ End of Life: Supported Versions and What to Do About 3.x

RabbitMQ end of life explained: which release series still get security fixes, what 4.0 removed, and the three routes off an unsupported bro….

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Kafka Consumer Lag: Causes, Monitoring, and How to Reduce It

What Kafka consumer lag means, the causes behind it, how to monitor offset and time lag properly, and the fixes that actually reduce it in p….

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Erlang 26 End of Life: Why Legacy RabbitMQ Is Now Unpatchable

Erlang 26 end of life on 26 May 2026: why RabbitMQ 3.13 cannot reach Erlang 27, what it means for support, and your upgrade or licensing opt….

9 Jan 2026

Redis

Redis Eviction Policy: Which One to Use and How to Configure It

Redis eviction policy explained: all eight options, how LRU and LFU really work, setting maxmemory, and the sizing mistake that crashes prod….

9 Jan 2026

IBM MQ

IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ: Which Message Broker Fits Your Architecture

IBM MQ vs RabbitMQ compared on guarantees, protocols, cost, and operations — plus where Kafka and ActiveMQ fit, and when migrating is actual….

9 Jan 2026

VMware

VMware Licensing Cost: How Pricing Actually Works in 2026

How VMware licensing cost is calculated: per-core pricing, the 16-core and 72-core minimums, which legacy products map to VCF or VVF..

9 Jan 2026

Kafka

Kafka Rebalance: What Triggers It and How to Stop the Storms

What triggers a Kafka rebalance, why eager rebalancing stops the world, and the consumer settings that end rebalance storms in production..

9 Jan 2026

VMware

VMware Cloud Foundation vs vSphere Foundation: Which Tier Do You Need?

VMware Cloud Foundation vs vSphere Foundation compared: what each tier includes, vSAN entitlements, and whether you can upgrade later..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Prefetch Count: Why a Well-Configured Prefetch Is Critical for High-Throughput Real-Time Clusters

Prefetch count is the highest-leverage consumer-side tuning parameter in RabbitMQ — and the one most consistently misconfigured in production..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Top 5 Things to Monitor to Ensure Your Kubernetes RabbitMQ Cluster Is Healthy

Running RabbitMQ on Kubernetes is not running RabbitMQ on bare metal. The monitoring signals that matter on a static three-node VM cluster are not the same signals that tell you whether a RabbitMQ StatefulSet is healthy..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Troubleshooting: 12 Production Issues and How to Fix Them

A field-tested RabbitMQ troubleshooting guide with the diagnostic commands for each failure: cluster partitions, memory alarms, TLS handshakes, stuck queues, and flow control..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Tanzu RabbitMQ Licensing: The Complete Guide to Enterprise Messaging Value

In the world of enterprise IT, the right message broker can be the difference between scalable success and exponential headaches..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

AceMQ RabbitMQ Legacy Support: Reliable at Any Scale or Version

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, reliable messaging infrastructure is essential for businesses of all sizes..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Classic vs Quorum Queues: Which to Use and How to Migrate

Classic queue or quorum queue? Compare data safety, throughput, and limitations, see what quorum queues do not support, and follow a tested migration path..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Support: Your Guide to Reliable Messaging Solutions

RabbitMQ has established itself as one of the most popular open-source message brokers, powering mission-critical applications across industries..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Beyond RabbitMQ: Expert Messaging & Compliance

AceMQ's core is RabbitMQ, but we also support Redis, Kafka, and regulated industries — banking, government, energy/SCADA — with the compliance documentation and CVE coverage auditors require..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

AceMQ & Broadcom: Our RabbitMQ Partnership

AceMQ is the only global RabbitMQ MSP and Broadcom's 2025 Tanzu Partner of the Year. Here's what that means for commercial licensing, escalation paths, and reseller models..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

What a RabbitMQ Health Check Actually Delivers

Wondering if a RabbitMQ assessment is worth it? This guide explains what a structured health check covers, what you walk away with, and the five things assessments almost always find..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ on Kubernetes & OpenShift: Deployment

Kubernetes adds real operational complexity to RabbitMQ — from quorum pod termination behavior to cluster upgrades that get stuck. This guide covers the key patterns and gotchas..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ HA & Disaster Recovery: Cluster Sizing

How many nodes do you actually need? How does warm schema replication work for disaster recovery? This guide covers cluster sizing and HA design with quorum queues..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Choosing a RabbitMQ Support Model & SLA

Not all RabbitMQ support is the same. This guide breaks down product support vs. managed support, how to choose the right SLA tier, and what's actually included..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Upgrading RabbitMQ 3.x to 4.x Without Downtime

RabbitMQ upgrades don't have to mean downtime. This guide covers the two proven strategies — rolling upgrade and blue-green deployment — and the steps most teams miss..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Licensing & Pricing: Per-vCPU Guide

Confused by RabbitMQ commercial licensing? This guide breaks down the per-vCPU-core model, what's included at each tier, and how to right-size your licensing before you buy..

9 Jan 2026

RabbitMQ

Is RabbitMQ Open Source? Community, Commercial, and Enterprise Support Compared

RabbitMQ is open source and free for commercial use — but community support is time-limited. Compare open source, Tanzu RabbitMQ, and independent enterprise support..

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The AceMQ blog publishes in-depth technical guides on RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, IBM MQ, and VMware licensing under Broadcom — covering architecture, high availability, troubleshooting, and the licensing and support decisions enterprise teams actually face.

Our blog articles are written by experienced messaging system architects and subject matter experts who work daily with enterprise messaging technologies and VMware licensing engagements.

We regularly update our blog with new insights, tutorials, customer stories, and technical deep dives across RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, IBM MQ, and VMware to help professionals stay current with MQ and infrastructure licensing trends.

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