Guides
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.
- 28 Guides
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Redis
- IBM MQ
- ActiveMQ
- Databricks
- Managed Services
- Database
- Search
- VMware
- RabbitMQ10 min read
RabbitMQ for AI Agents: Patterns, Setup and Pitfalls
Run AI agents on RabbitMQ: work queues for LLM calls, quorum queues, dead-lettering for poison prompts, tool calls over RPC, streams, and the pitfalls.10 steps12 articles linkedUpdated October 10, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ8 min read
Celery and RabbitMQ for LLM Task Queues
Run LLM, embedding and RAG jobs on Celery with RabbitMQ: late acks, prefetch, consumer timeouts, quorum queues, retries with backoff, chords and routing.13 steps6 articles linkedUpdated October 10, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ8 min read
Agent-to-Agent Messaging over AMQP and RabbitMQ
Carrying Agent2Agent (A2A) tasks over AMQP on RabbitMQ: what the A2A spec defines, a topology pattern, security, and how Solace and Kafka approaches compare.9 steps6 articles linkedUpdated October 10, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ5 min read
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 steps8 articles linkedUpdated October 5, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ7 min read
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 steps9 articles linkedUpdated October 4, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ8 min read
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 steps16 articles linkedUpdated September 28, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ4 min read
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 steps10 articles linkedUpdated September 28, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ6 min read
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 steps16 articles linkedUpdated September 10, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ5 min read
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 steps16 articles linkedUpdated September 10, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ4 min read
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 steps10 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ4 min read
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 steps14 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - RabbitMQ3 min read
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 steps14 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide
- Kafka6 min read
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 steps11 articles linkedUpdated October 20, 2026Read the guide - Kafka8 min read
Kafka for AI Agents Without Confluent Cloud
AI agents on open-source Kafka, MSK or Aiven: CDC for RAG, stream processing for embeddings, MCP servers, agent patterns, and replacing Streaming Agents.9 steps11 articles linkedUpdated October 10, 2026Read the guide - Kafka5 min read
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 steps7 articles linkedUpdated September 14, 2026Read the guide - Kafka4 min read
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 steps14 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - Kafka3 min read
The Kafka Buyer's 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 steps10 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - Redis9 min read
Redis for AI: Vector Search, Agent Memory and MCP in Production
Redis for AI in production: vector index choice, memory sizing for embeddings, semantic caching, agent memory, the Redis MCP server, persistence and eviction.11 steps14 articles linkedUpdated October 10, 2026Read the guide - Redis5 min read
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 steps16 articles linkedUpdated September 10, 2026Read the guide - Redis4 min read
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 steps12 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - Redis3 min read
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 steps10 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - IBM MQ3 min read
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 steps11 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - ActiveMQ2 min read
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 steps6 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide - Databricks8 min read
The Hadoop to Databricks Migration Guide
Move a Hadoop or Cloudera estate to Databricks: inventory, component mapping, HDFS to Delta, Hive metastore to Unity Catalog, Oozie, Ranger and cutover.12 steps3 articles linkedUpdated October 14, 2026Read the guide
- Managed Services9 min read
Managed Messaging in Your Own Cloud: Who Operates What
Managed messaging in your own cloud vs hosted vs DIY for RabbitMQ, Kafka and Redis: access model, networking, keys, patching, observability, cost and exit.10 steps6 articles linkedUpdated October 20, 2026Read the guide - Database9 min read
MySQL to PostgreSQL Migration: The Technical Guide
Migrate MySQL to PostgreSQL: type and collation differences, pgloader vs AWS DMS vs Debezium CDC, validation, a cutover runbook and MySQL 8.0 EOL context.11 steps10 articles linkedUpdated October 15, 2026Read the guide - Search8 min read
Elasticsearch to OpenSearch Migration: A Step-by-Step Guide
Migrate Elasticsearch to OpenSearch: the path for each version (7.10, 7.17, 8.x), snapshots, reindex, Migration Assistant, clients, security and cutover.11 steps8 articles linkedUpdated October 15, 2026Read the guide - VMware3 min read
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 steps26 articles linkedUpdated September 9, 2026Read the guide
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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.
RabbitMQ
24/7 RabbitMQ support
15-minute emergency SLA, versions back to 3.8.x
Managed RabbitMQ services
We run the brokers, on your infrastructure or hosted
RabbitMQ consulting
Architecture, migration and remediation from senior engineers
RabbitMQ health check
Engineer-led assessment with a prioritised fix list
Extended LTS support for RabbitMQ 3.x
CVE backports for versions the community no longer patches
RabbitMQ commercial licensing
Tanzu RabbitMQ licences from an authorized Broadcom partner
RabbitMQ troubleshooting
Live incidents and recurring faults
RabbitMQ upgrades
3.x to 4.x, planned and executed in your window
RabbitMQ migrations
From IBM MQ, Kafka, cloud brokers or older RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ implementation and architecture
Cluster design, DR and go-live
RabbitMQ corporate training
Admin and developer courses taught by working engineers
Kafka
24/7 Kafka support
Self-managed, MSK or Confluent Platform
Managed Kafka services
We run the clusters, on your infrastructure or hosted
Debezium CDC support
Change data capture from Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Debezium consulting
CDC design for Kafka Connect and Debezium Server
Event-driven architecture consulting
Broker choice, patterns and support after go-live
Kafka consulting
Partition strategy, sizing, security and migration
RabbitMQ support
If the estate runs both brokers
Kubernetes and container services
Kafka on Kubernetes, operated with your team
Enterprise MQ support
One contract across Kafka, RabbitMQ and IBM MQ
Enterprise support plans
SLA tiers and what each covers
Enterprise MQ consulting
Multi-broker architecture and migration
Redis
24/7 Redis support
Open-source Redis, Redis Stack and Valkey
Managed Redis services
We run Redis and Valkey, on your infrastructure or hosted
Redis consulting
Latency, memory, replication and failover design
Event-driven architecture consulting
Broker choice, patterns and support after go-live
Valkey support
Production cover for the Linux Foundation fork
Valkey consulting and licensing
Tanzu Valkey from an authorized Broadcom partner
Enterprise support plans
SLA tiers and what each covers
Kubernetes and container services
Redis on Kubernetes, operated with your team
RabbitMQ support
If Redis and RabbitMQ run together
IBM MQ
IBM MQ consulting
RDQM, FIPS hardening, upgrades and migration
IBM MQ support
24/7 cover with a 15-minute emergency SLA
RabbitMQ migrations
The most common destination off IBM MQ
Enterprise MQ support
One contract across IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Kafka
Enterprise MQ consulting
Multi-broker architecture and migration
ActiveMQ
Databricks
Databricks migration services
Hadoop, Cloudera, Snowflake and BigQuery to Databricks
Databricks cost optimization
DBU spend, cluster policies and Spark job tuning
Databricks health check
Engineer-led review of spend, governance, Delta tables and jobs
Databricks implementation
Workspace setup, Unity Catalog and security
Databricks support
Production support for Databricks workloads
Databricks consulting
Lakehouse architecture and delivery
Kafka support
If Kafka feeds the lakehouse
Managed Services
Managed RabbitMQ services
We run the brokers, on your infrastructure or hosted
Managed Kafka services
We run the clusters, on your infrastructure or hosted
Managed Redis services
We run Redis and Valkey, on your infrastructure or hosted
24/7 RabbitMQ support
Stages 1 and 2: you run it, we are on call
24/7 Kafka support
Self-managed, MSK or Confluent Platform
24/7 Redis support
Open-source Redis, Redis Stack and Valkey
Enterprise support plans
SLA tiers and what each covers
Database
24/7 PostgreSQL support
Self-managed and cloud-hosted
PostgreSQL consulting
Schema review, migration planning and tuning
24/7 MySQL support
Community, Enterprise and cloud
MySQL consulting
Upgrades, replication and performance
Debezium CDC support
Change data capture into PostgreSQL
Database support across engines
One contract for PostgreSQL, MySQL and more
End-of-life software support
Options when a database version loses support
Search
OpenSearch consulting and migration
Assessment, migration and operations
24/7 OpenSearch support
Self-managed and Amazon OpenSearch Service
Elasticsearch consulting
Architecture, upgrades and remediation
24/7 Elasticsearch support
Self-managed 7.x to 9.x
ELK stack support
Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana together
Database support across engines
One contract across data platforms