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  • RabbitMQ
  • VMware
RabbitMQ8 min · 11 sections

The RabbitMQ Reliability Guide: Ten Failure Patterns and Their Fixes

The ten ways production RabbitMQ clusters fail most often, from network partitions and wrong queue types to unacknowledged messages and connection churn: the symptom, the root cause, the fix, and the setting to search your own configuration for.

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RabbitMQ4 min · 7 sections

The RabbitMQ Disaster Recovery Guide

How to design RabbitMQ disaster recovery in sequence: what HA inside a cluster does and does not cover, sizing for failure, federation versus shovel for a second site, definitions backup, recovery objectives, and the failover test most teams never run.

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RabbitMQ3 min · 7 sections

The RabbitMQ Clustering and Sizing Guide

How to design a production RabbitMQ cluster in sequence: node count and placement, queue type per workload, sizing memory, disk and CPU to peak, partition handling, policies, and the settings that make a cluster survive the network it actually runs on.

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RabbitMQ4 min · 8 sections

The RabbitMQ on Kubernetes Guide

Running RabbitMQ on Kubernetes in sequence: whether to at all, the Cluster Operator, persistent volumes and storage classes, network policy for Erlang distribution, resource requests and limits, monitoring, rolling updates that keep quorum, and the EKS, AKS, GKE and OpenShift differences.

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RabbitMQ3 min · 7 sections

The RabbitMQ Migration Guide

Every RabbitMQ migration in one sequence: deciding whether to migrate, readiness inventory, mapping semantics from IBM MQ, Kafka or Azure Service Bus, classic to quorum queues, cutover patterns that avoid downtime, and validation before decommissioning the source.

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VMware3 min · 9 sections

The VMware Renewal Guide, 2026

The whole VMware renewal in nine steps: what Broadcom changed, whether to renew at all, who can quote you, counting cores, choosing VCF or VVF, choosing the term, reading the quote, timing, and the special cases.

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