Systems need to talk to one another. When an IT environment contains platforms with multiple messaging protocols—and most do—a message queue (MQ) is required to handle the messages that travel back ...

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The Bloomberg Managed Services (BMS) group is focused on providing easy-to-adopt self-service infrastructure building blocks that the company’s thousands of application developers then rely upon to ...

This article is the first of two parts. This installment describes the components that comprise a typical message queuing system, and describes the functionality such systems should perform. Next ...

A technical achievement comparable to the "creation of the internet and the PC" or even "the Tower of Babel in reverse". Not the kind of hyperbole you'd normally associate with the glamour-challenged ...