One Subject, End to End
Each guide takes a decision from first question to signed order and points to the detailed article at every step.
- 19 Guides
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Redis
- IBM MQ
- ActiveMQ
- VMware
The RabbitMQ Reliability Guide: Ten Failure Patterns and Their Fixes
The ten ways production RabbitMQ fails, from network partitions and wrong queue types to unacked messages and connection churn: symptom, cause, and fix.
- 11 steps
- 16 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Clustering and Sizing Guide
Design a production RabbitMQ cluster: node count and placement, queue type per workload, sizing memory, disk and CPU to peak, partition handling, policies.
- 7 steps
- 10 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Performance Tuning Guide
RabbitMQ performance tuning in order: measure first, hardware floor, memory watermark, disk and file limits, connections, prefetch, queue type, network.
- 10 steps
- 8 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Streams Guide
RabbitMQ streams in sequence: when to use one over a quorum queue, retention, offsets, super streams, replicas, and what a confirm guarantees.
- 9 steps
- 9 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Security and Hardening Guide
Harden production RabbitMQ in nine steps: TLS everywhere, no guest account, real permissions, vhost isolation, closed ports, CVE patching, audit evidence.
- 9 steps
- 16 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Monitoring and Alerting Guide
What to monitor on production RabbitMQ and what to alert on: Prometheus plugin, queue depth as a rate, unacked messages, memory and disk alarms, quorum.
- 9 steps
- 16 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Disaster Recovery Guide
RabbitMQ disaster recovery in sequence: what HA does not cover, sizing for failure, federation vs shovel, definitions backup, RPO, and the failover test.
- 7 steps
- 10 articles linked
The RabbitMQ on Kubernetes Guide
RabbitMQ on Kubernetes in sequence: Cluster Operator, storage classes, network policy, resource limits, monitoring, upgrades that keep quorum, EKS/AKS/GKE.
- 8 steps
- 14 articles linked
The RabbitMQ Migration Guide
Every RabbitMQ migration in one sequence: readiness inventory, mapping from IBM MQ, Kafka or Azure Service Bus, classic to quorum, zero-downtime cutover.
- 7 steps
- 14 articles linked
The Kafka Monitoring and Alerting Guide
Which Kafka metrics to collect and which to page on: under-replicated partitions, controller count, request handler idle, consumer lag as a rate, latency.
- 7 steps
- 7 articles linked
The Kafka Migration Guide
Planning a Kafka migration: ZooKeeper to KRaft before 4.0, moving between self-managed, MSK, Confluent and Redpanda, MirrorMaker 2, and a lossless cutover.
- 7 steps
- 10 articles linked
The Kafka Operations Guide
Running Kafka in production, in the order decisions arrive: KRaft and 4.0, partitions, consumer lag, rebalances, producer timeouts, retention, security.
- 10 steps
- 14 articles linked
Buying Kafka Support: The Guide
How to buy Apache Kafka support: what a contract covers, open source vs Confluent Platform, vendor vs independent, what it costs, and how to read the SLA.
- 6 steps
- 7 articles linked
The Redis Backup and Disaster Recovery Guide
What actually protects Redis data: RDB snapshots versus AOF, choosing persistence from a real RPO rather than a default, why replication is not a backup, cross-region recovery, restore rehearsal, and what a managed provider does and does not cover.
- 9 steps
- 16 articles linked
The Redis Reliability Guide
Running Redis and Valkey in production: Sentinel or Cluster, memory sizing and eviction policy, why memory grows with flat keys, client timeouts, failover.
- 7 steps
- 12 articles linked
Buying Redis and Valkey Support: The Guide
How to buy production support for Redis or Valkey: what a contract covers, Redis Enterprise vs open source, provider types, cost, 24/7 incident response.
- 6 steps
- 10 articles linked
The IBM MQ Modernization Guide
Modernize an IBM MQ estate in sequence: end-of-support dates by version, PVU and VPC licensing cost, keep or migrate at each date, how a migration runs.
- 6 steps
- 11 articles linked
The ActiveMQ Modernization Guide
What to do with an ActiveMQ estate: Classic vs Artemis, whether Classic is being phased out, what Artemis changes, and when RabbitMQ is the better move.
- 4 steps
- 6 articles linked
The VMware Renewal Guide, 2026
The VMware renewal in nine steps: what Broadcom changed, whether to renew, who can quote you, counting cores, VCF or VVF, the term, reading the quote.
- 9 steps
- 26 articles linked
The services behind guides
Every page on this shelf is written by the engineers who do the work. These are the engagements they come from.
- 24/7 RabbitMQ support15-minute emergency SLA, versions back to 3.8.x
- Managed RabbitMQ servicesWe run the brokers, on your infrastructure or hosted
- RabbitMQ consultingArchitecture, migration and remediation from senior engineers
- RabbitMQ health checkEngineer-led assessment with a prioritised fix list
- Extended LTS support for RabbitMQ 3.xCVE backports for versions the community no longer patches
- RabbitMQ commercial licensingTanzu RabbitMQ licences from an authorized Broadcom partner
- RabbitMQ troubleshootingLive incidents and recurring faults
- RabbitMQ upgrades3.x to 4.x, planned and executed in your window
- RabbitMQ migrationsFrom IBM MQ, Kafka, cloud brokers or older RabbitMQ
- RabbitMQ implementation and architectureCluster design, DR and go-live
- RabbitMQ corporate trainingAdmin and developer courses taught by working engineers
- 24/7 Kafka supportSelf-managed, MSK or Confluent Platform
- Kafka consultingPartition strategy, sizing, security and migration
- RabbitMQ supportIf the estate runs both brokers
- Kubernetes and container servicesKafka on Kubernetes, operated with your team
- Enterprise MQ supportOne contract across Kafka, RabbitMQ and IBM MQ
- Enterprise support plansSLA tiers and what each covers
- Enterprise MQ consultingMulti-broker architecture and migration
- 24/7 Redis supportOpen-source Redis, Redis Stack and Valkey
- Redis consultingLatency, memory, replication and failover design
- Valkey supportProduction cover for the Linux Foundation fork
- Valkey consulting and licensingTanzu Valkey from an authorized Broadcom partner
- Enterprise support plansSLA tiers and what each covers
- Kubernetes and container servicesRedis on Kubernetes, operated with your team
- RabbitMQ supportIf Redis and RabbitMQ run together
- IBM MQ consultingRDQM, FIPS hardening, upgrades and migration
- IBM MQ support24/7 cover with a 15-minute emergency SLA
- RabbitMQ migrationsThe most common destination off IBM MQ
- Enterprise MQ supportOne contract across IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Enterprise MQ consultingMulti-broker architecture and migration