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December 19, 2021

IBM MQ in ECS on AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute resource specifically designed for running containers. With AWS Fargate the deployment and management of the container(s) are controlled by either Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

Initially, users often get confused by the relationship between Fargate and the container management solution (EKS or ECS). Therefore, I want to labor the point of the difference, when deploying a container within the context of an enterprise, any solution will include two components:

June 15, 2021

Message Expiration Pattern Explained

A message might have a limited lifetime, and if it is not processed within this period, it is useless and should be discarded.

For example, a pizza order is useless when its maximum wait time is passed. The customer might have considered ordering from another shop. Also, in a highly dynamic environment like stock trading, a BUY order must be processed within seconds. If not, the order will be irrelevant as the prices can fluctuate.

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