Richard Nikula, Author at meshIQ

Published March 26, 2024

Strategies for Ensuring Compliance in Financial Messaging

By Richard Nikula

In the ever-evolving landscape of financial services, institutions are under constant pressure to ensure their messaging infrastructures comply with a myriad of global regulatory requirements. Compliance with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), and other localized financial regulations is not just a legal necessity but a cornerstone for maintaining trust and integrity in the financial sector.

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Strategies for Ensuring Compliance in Financial Messaging

Published March 18, 2024

Optimizing Performance and Reliability in Messaging Systems

By Richard Nikula

In today's digital landscape, the performance and reliability of messaging systems are paramount for business operations. Systems like IBM MQ play a crucial role in ensuring seamless communication between different parts of an application, impacting everything from transaction processing to customer experiences.

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Optimizing Performance and Reliability in Messaging Systems

Published December 13, 2023

Lessons Learned from Managing Kafka Costs

By Richard Nikula

You probably have seen ads where someone claims that their app can save you money by finding subscriptions you forgot about. I have a hard time imaging someone with $100s of dollars of expenses they forgot about, but I have had the occasional one that was missed.

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Lessons Learned from Managing Kafka Costs

Published March 31, 2022

An Introduction To Using Nastel With Amazon MSK

By Richard Nikula

An introduction to using Nastel with Amazon MSK

Apache Kafka is a very popular open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

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Published March 30, 2022

Managing Kafka on AWS with Nastel Navigator

By Richard Nikula

Apache Kafka is a very popular open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Amazon MSK is a fully managed Kafka service that makes using Kafka even easier.

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Managing Kafka on AWS with Nastel Navigator

Published April 19, 2021

Have Cloud Security Needs Changed Since COVID-19?

By Richard Nikula

Cloud is not new. The term dates back at least twenty years. Some people will tell you that the term “cloud” just means using someone else’s computing environment, and in some ways, this is where it started.

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Have Cloud Security Needs Changed Since COVID-19?

Published April 1, 2021

What’s New In MQ 9.2.2

By Richard Nikula

What’s new in MQ 9.2.2?

The most recent Continuous Delivery (CD) release for IBM MQ became generally available on March 25^th, 2021. CD releases provide insight into what the next Long Term Support (LTS) release will look at.

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Published September 23, 2020

A philosophical (possibly even a theological) discussion of IBM MQ’s maximum queue depth

By Richard Nikula

I was having a discussion the other day about IBM MQ maximum queue depth. After thinking about this, I really got to thinking about why this exists. The basic concept for a queue is to hold messages the producers create until consumers can process them.

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A philosophical (possibly even a theological) discussion of IBM MQ’s maximum queue depth

Published July 23, 2020

A brief overview of what’s new in IBM MQ 9.2

By Richard Nikula

Recently, I wrote about the difference between long-term support and continuous delivery releases of IBM MQ. In that discussion I pointed out that based on their traditional cadence that a new MQ release was not far off.

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A brief overview of what’s new in IBM MQ 9.2

Published July 16, 2020

A Really Big Blog!

By Richard Nikula

On my first trip to India I stayed right across from the gateway of India. This is a tourist area, especially popular for the locals, and some international travelers. From my hotel window, I could see street vendors with these really big balloons.

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