November 2021 Newsletter – meshIQ

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Updates
Popular FAQs
Middleware Performance Benchmark
XRay COVID-19 Data Lake
Webinars & TechTalks
Keeping up with Nastel
Our Blog

1. Updates

Our Platform

We had 3 recent product deliveries on our platform.

AutoPilot Service update 32
Navigator 10.3
XRay 1.4

In addition to the new features and benefits (see below), one thing these share in common is single sign-on (SSO) using SAML for our web applications. If you are interested in using this feature, please contact your technical account manager to work out a deployment plan. There are many security providers, and we can work with you to determine the details that are required for your specific configuration.

With the continued integration among all of the products in our platform, we have identified that our current release numbering system can be confusing. In upcoming releases, we will standardize our approach, using a common version numbering system across the components.

Navigator

One of the updates to Navigator 10.3 offers more versatile dashboard management and usage. You can now have multiple dashboard configurations (user views) and switch between them. This allows you to have many dashboards and easily access them with minimal navigation. As part of this, a dashboard manager application is provided, which allows you to review your current dashboards, export and import them, and even tag them so that you and others can find them more quickly in the future.

The same flexibility has been extended to attributes and message filters, further simplifying Navigator and extending its flexibility.

The number of customers using Navigator in their CI/CD automated pipelines continues to increase. We also continue to enhance the REST endpoint with new functionality. If you have not tried it out yet, see the FAQ below to learn how you can exercise it directly using our demo system.

Perhaps it’s a small thing, but you can now select a flat color scheme as an alternative to the gradient option that has been available if that is your preference.

XRay

With XRay 1.4, we have introduced a new query element called a view (much like a view in database systems). The key element of a view is that it runs independently to run the query and stores the data (Oracle calls this a materialized view). A typical use case for this is a query that takes a long time to process. Rather than having to wait for the result, the GUI gets it from the latest view execution and displays it instantly.

JKQL scripting has been added so that complex JKQL can be scheduled to run. While typically used internally, such as for machine learning, the capabilities can be extended to other tasks that are run frequently.

In terms of machine learning, we have continued to simplify the process and can automatically create dashboards with targeted viewlets associated with a given model.

Emails from support

There are 2 email addresses in use for support.

Support@meshiq.com is a mail list, and any mail you send to this address is routed to our entire support staff, key developers, software engineers, and management.

Supportsystem@meshiq.com is the account associated with the support system itself. This is used to send notifications when support tickets are updated. In the future, it will also be the email address you use to reply to a support ticket via email, eliminating the current need to log in to support to update the ticket.

Please make sure to add both to your safe senders list!

2. Popular FAQs & Articles

Using the REST API using the Navigator demo system

If you want to try out the Navigator REST API without installing it, you can exercise it on the Navigator demo system.

See this FAQ

3. Middleware Performance Benchmark

What’s the best performing messaging platform for your application and workload?

This is a question that can take immense effort to analyze and answer.

Whether you are building a new app, upgrading existing, or moving workloads to the cloud, this report will help you make the right decision.

We have done extensive performance testing under varying workloads and configurations to compare messaging middleware platforms.

Report Outline:

This report compares the performance of these commonly used messaging middleware platforms:

IBM MQ
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
ActiveMQ Classic
ActiveMQ Artemis

The report also includes methodology, environment, the performance of tests, the results, and the conclusions.

Download the free report today!

4. XRay COVID-19 Data Lake

We have pulled together multiple COVID-19 datasets from CDC, Johns Hopkins University, and several others into a single interactive data lake on which you can do the following:

Run your own queries & computations
Create analytics & web dashboards
Share your charts & graphs in web apps

The data lake is updated daily with the latest COVID-19 stats from around the world. View the dashboard live, no registration required!

5. Webinars & TechTalks

OnDemand Webinars

OnDemand - Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure

OnDemand - Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure - Customers Only

OnDemand Frustrated with time-to-delivery for new apps with messaging middleware?

OnDemand DevOps.com Webinar: Mastering Application Integration Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Click HERE to see our library of other on-demand sessions.

6. Keeping up with Nastel

On Thursday, November 11, 2021, we announced the release of Navigator 10.3 and on Friday, November 12, 2021, we announced the release of XRay 1.4. Here are the press releases for each which illustrate the company’s new message around “integration” and the value to the business of better managing and extracting intelligence from messages and the entire integration layer of the IT stack:

Infrastructure Integration Management (i2M) Drives Gains for Complex Enterprises: Navigator v10.3 Enables Speed-to-market, Competitive Advantages Across IBM MQ, IBM Integration Bus, IBM ACE, Kafka, TIBCO EMS, and i2 Estates.

Nastel Releases i2-aware AIOps, Analytics & Tracking Platform for Complex Enterprises: XRay 1.4 Solution Plugs Data and Analytics Gaps for Enterprises to Enable Insights from the Integration Infrastructure (i2) Layer, IoT, and Containers.

We want to ensure you and your colleagues can easily find all our recent press releases and other news, so here is the news archive for your convenience.

Click HERE to read the news archive.

7. Our Blog

Our blog is one way we are working to raise the profile of teams that work on IBM MQ, messaging middleware, and the entire Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) layer of the IT stack. Read and share these recent blogs to help spread the word:

Click HERE to read our blog.