Category Archives: Messaging

Success with Matching Engines – what does that look like?

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Graham

  Implementing a Matching Engine application presents a host of challenges. If you’re responsible for such a project then you need to give serious consideration to a number of critical system components. Here are just a few of the questions … Continue reading →

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RabbitMQ – API Statistics – Documentation Trail

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ben

I appreciate I may be the only person in the world who cares about this, but every time I try and monitor a RabbitMQ server, I spend time digging through the documentation reminding myself what exactly I have to do. … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Integration Projects – How do I know when I’m done?

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Graham

Being responsible for a large enterprise integration project brings with it an ominous set of challenges. If you’re project managing such an endeavour then you need to have a constant mind on how you can prove that your integration pieces … Continue reading →

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Not modelling your workflow? Here there be monsters!

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Graham

I wanted to share a recent project experience with you that further strengthened my belief that a picture paints a thousand words. It helped to identify the root cause of a show-stopping problem where other efforts to do so had … Continue reading →

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Regulatory Reporting projects – Five things to watch

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Graham

What have we learnt from the recent flurry of Regulatory Reporting activity? Here we share our combined experiences and hopefully give you some insight into the potential problems and pitfalls that may await you if you are required to deliver … Continue reading →

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10 Things You’ll Do On Every Messaging Project – Designing an Adapter Framework

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Ben

This is the second in our series on life on an enteprise messaging project. This time we will be discussing that adapter framework you noticed appearing in the development team’s conversations. There’s no line for it on the project plan, … Continue reading →

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Ten Things You’ll Do On Every Messaging Project – Intro

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ben

So you’ve read Enterprise Patterns, and understood at least half of it. You’ve either finally got Eclipse working, or downloaded last week’s service pack for Visual Studio. You’re ready to write your first enterprise messaging solution – but what’s it … Continue reading →

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