How to use the Native IBM MQ Client Receiver with Spark Streaming After using Apache Nifi and IBM MQ I noticed that Nifi could not easily guarantee order of incoming messages as failover can occur at anytime. This becomes a problem specifically with database and table replication when the replicating software puts messages to a…
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Integrating Apache Nifi with IBM MQ This would be a continuation of the IBM MQ and Hadoop integration article I first posted a few years ago. This explains how to integrate IBM MQ with Apache Nifi or Hortonworks HDF. IBM MQ is extremely important when attempting to integrate new technologies with legacy environments specifically mainframe environments…
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After working many years with IBM WebSphere Application Server on Solaris, Linux on PSeries, XSeries and ZSeries and Z/OS. I came to realize the IBM version of Java has much better debug tools and documentation available to perform debugging and performance tuning. Examples of these features are the IBM AOT Ahead of Time Compiler which…
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Integrating Apache Hadoop and Flume with IBM MQ Over the past 2 years of working with Apache Hadoop a few things have come up folks wanting to use Apache Kafka which definitely has it’s place in the Hadoop Big Data and Next Generation of Technology spheres. But there is also the need to integrate with…
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GS Tech Blog What is the GS Tech Blog! It’s a place for me to rant and provide my thoughts about technology I’ve worked with over many years. So after working as a Technology Systems Engineer for almost 20 years, I decided it’s time to create a blog to publish some of my ideas and…
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