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For years, I/S organizations saw message oriented middleware, or message queuing, as a high risk solution. Today that risk is diminishing quickly. For more than two decades, companies have mostly used ...

WhatsApp has released an update for its iOS app, bringing it up to version 2.17.1. The update brings a few changes to the iOS messaging app, perhaps the most notable being the new queue for offline ...

Sometimes you can improve your application's response time by shunting some activities to offline processing -- sending an e-mail response, for instance. Here's how to use Microsoft Message Queue ...

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In today’s world, distributed message queues are used in many systems and play different roles (e.g. content delivery, notification system and message delivery tools). It is important for the queue ...

Messaging middleware for Windows NT from Microsoft. Code-named Falcon, and abbreviated MSMQ, it allows programs to send messages to other programs. It can be used to queue up transactions in a ...

In part 1 of this series, I detailed issues around PCI and message queuing. Here in part 2, we will get more into the nitty-gritty of how to ensure PCI DSS compliance when dealing with message queues.