Amazon SQS vs Apache Kafka

Amazon SQS and Apache Kafka are popular solutions on the market, but they aren’t created equal. Here’s what you should know about these platforms along with the associated pros and cons for each solution. While you’re comparing, be sure to check out IronMQ’s flexible, highly scalable Message Queue by starting a 14-day free trial. Achieve…

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The Power of an Enterprise Messaging Queue

Enterprise messaging queues come in many flavors, but they all serve a similar purpose of enabling your disconnected systems to communicate with each other. Iron MQ is highly available, persistent by design, and offers the best in reliable communication and connectivity for all of your services and components. With Iron MQ, you’ll enjoy best effort…

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Optimizing Your Message Queue and SendGrid Using Iron

Some marketers believe that social media will soon dominate how companies and customers communicate with each other. While social media will definitely play a role, you cannot forget about the importance of email. Practically everyone uses email, so it makes sense for companies to adopt flexible email marketing solutions like SendGrid. Before you commit to SendGrid or any message…

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Heroku vs AWS Fargate vs EC2 On-Demand vs EC2

When it comes to choosing container services, you have abundant options to explore. Heroku vs AWS Fargate vs EC2 On-Demand vs EC2 just scratches the surface. The following comparison should help you decide whether one of these services has the write Docker containers, Kubernetes, containerized virtual machines, and other features your organization needs for your…

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Overview Finding the best message queue for your organization gains importance as your networks and application integrations become more complex. You need a fail-safe message queue that sends requests quickly and reliably. Just one break in the chain can slow your entire system, making it difficult for you to complete business processes and fulfill client needs. It…

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Overview Pricing always plays a role when choosing IT tools. Ideally, you want to get a great product that doesn’t bloat your budget. When you have a limited amount of money to spend, though, it’s tempting to choose the cheapest messaging queues. Saving money makes sense unless you select a messaging queue solution that makes…

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RabbitMQ

Software applications can be connected and scaled using message queues. They make it possible for asynchronous communication to happen between two systems that have different throughputs. RabbitMQ is a message queue software (message broker/queue manager) that acts as an intermediary platform where different applications can send and receive messages. Message queues decouple applications which makes it…

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ironmq

Overview: Message queues determine how your network functions. But many networks’ message queue infrastructures are surprisingly fragile. When one link on the chain fails, the entire system can function unexpectedly, or even fail outright. To prevent these problems, you need to make sure your message queue is fail-safe — and harnessing the power of the…

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