Archive for August, 2011

4th Annual AMQP Conference Announced

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

The AMQP Working Group has been working diligently for over 5 years and we have released several versions of the protocol, including 0.8, 0.91 and more recently the 0.10 release. StormMQ joined the working Group in May 2010 around the time that the AMQP 1.0 specification was starting to firm up. ...

Whitepaper: Using AMQP based messaging to manage a cloud

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Anybody who has had to manage a large corporate IT network will know how hard it is to keep on top of monitoring. Here at StormMQ we had a rather large problem designing a monitoring system that could cope with our diverse infrastructure. This is because our network is cloud based ...

AMQP 1.0 specification tracker

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

The AMQP 1.0 protocol is almost ready to be passed back to the PMC for voting. Over the past few months this specificication has changed significantly and it is now changing on a weekly basis. Keeping track of all the activity is very hard....to help with this we have built ...

Some recent questions from customers and partners (part 2)

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

We often get asked interesting questions from customers and partners. I try to keep a note of these and some of these I have already posted on this blog, however here are a few more. Why put your MQ in the cloud? Well why not? Seriously, think about it. Message queues allow ...

The Magic Triangle; the future of AMQP

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

As I have mentioned many times before, we have been working really hard on agreeing the specification and all of the related negotiations regarding the release of the AMQP 1.0 protocol. This is something that we are really passionate about for many reasons, not least because we plan to release ...