Secure your AMPS instances with Kerberos
Kerberos has been an industry standard for authentication for many years and, as of 5.3, AMPS now ships with Kerberos support. AMPS Kerberos support is provided as one of the authentication mechanism...
View ArticleMeltdown and Spectre Performance Implications
Over the last several days, the technology world has been focused on the impact of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. There are several good articles published about these vulnerabilities, among...
View ArticleEasy Authentication and Entitlements
One of the most common requirements for AMPS instances is integration with an enterprise security system. In this blog post, we’ll show you the easiest way to get an integration up and running – by...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to AMPS!
This month marks the 10 year anniversary of AMPS being deployed into production environments, helping to fuel the global financial markets. Those first customer deployments built on AMPS are still in...
View ArticleManaging Large Topics in the SOW
One of the most popular features of AMPS is the State-of-the-World (or SOW), which allows applications to quickly retrieve the most current version of a message. Many applications use the SOW as a...
View ArticleMetadata Magic with New AMPS Functions
From the beginning, AMPS has been content aware. Most AMPS applications use content filtering, and features like the State-of-the-World, delta messaging, aggregation, and message enrichment all depend...
View ArticleMonitor your AMPS instances with Prometheus and Grafana
Modern data processing systems are complex and often consist of several sub-systems from various vendors where each individual subsystem typically exposes some sort of monitoring interface with its own...
View ArticleAMPS 5.3: More Power, More Performance
60East is proud to announce the release of AMPS 5.3 — the most fully-featured and easy to use version of AMPS yet!Production Tested From Day OneThe 5.3 release marks the full release of the features...
View ArticleSelect Lists: Data Served Up As You Like It
Select Lists is a new feature introduced in our 5.3 release of the AMPS server. This feature lets you declare a subset of fields for your application to receive when querying or subscribing to a topic....
View ArticleSecure your AMPS instances with Kerberos
Kerberos has been an industry standard for authentication for many years and, as of 5.3, AMPS now ships with Kerberos support. AMPS Kerberos support is provided as one of the authentication mechanism...
View ArticleFirst Things First: Priority Queues
AMPS queues provide a simple way to distribute work across a group of consumers. By default, AMPS queues provide work in first-in-first-out fashion: that is, the oldest message in the queue is provided...
View ArticleScaled-Out Batch Processing with AMPS Queue Barriers
Scaling out your data processing using AMPS queues allows you to dynamically adjust how many workers you apply to your data based on your needs and your computing resources. Larger orders coming in or...
View ArticleBest Web Grids for 2020
Many things have changed in the webapp world since we last did a grid comparison, way back in 2017.Chrome is increasing its domination in the market of browsers. Edge ditched its own web engine and is...
View ArticleFrom Zero to Fault Tolerance Hero with AMPS Replication
In real world systems, networks fail, components need to be replaced, servers need maintenance. Successful enterprise grade applications need to be designed with fault tolerance in mind! AMPS sets you...
View ArticleVisit a Range of Data with Bookmark Subscriptions
Even if you can’t make it to the great outdoors, AMPS now makes it easy to visit a range of data in the transaction log.For years, AMPS has had the ability to use a bookmark subscription to replay...
View ArticleGreat Web Grids for 2021
Last year we published a very popular grid comparison which provided a good overview of several web grid engines commonly used for modern web applications.The time has come to expand the review and...
View ArticleAMPS on Windows: WSL2 for Quick Development
AMPS is used for a wide variety of applications, from extreme low-latency applications with a latency budget of less than a millisecond roundtrip to applications that aggregate millions of fast...
View ArticleAMPS Components and CVE-2021-44228 (log4j)
Over the last several days, a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-4428) has been reported in the popular Apache log4j package.This is an extremely serious vulnerability, and is being actively...
View ArticleWhich Message Type is Best For You?
From Day-1, we’ve built AMPS to be content aware, yet message-type agnostic. As such, we’re often asked which message-type we think is best. The best message type, in most situations, is dependent on...
View ArticleReloaded: Monitor Your AMPS Instances with Prometheus and Grafana
This post updates one of our most popular blog articlesWe wrote this several years ago, and it remains true: modern data processing systems are complex and often consist of several sub-systems from...
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