Systems need to talk to one another. When an IT environment contains platforms with multiple messaging protocols—and most do—a message queue (MQ) is required to handle the messages that travel ...

Like Franz Kafka himself, this is an exhibition with two very different faces. One is a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of our image of the author – the icon of troubled genius constructed over the ...

AWS has another message queue, SQS, that supports “exactly once” semantics, but it is less focused on the real-time, high-volume pipelines that gravitate to Kinesis. Choosing the database ...

A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer ...

Tell us about BlazingMQ, the new open source message queuing project that was published. Ankur Saxena: BlazingMQ is a distributed message queuing system that provides a fast, reliable, feature ...

Kafka probably would not have chosen to be remembered as the ultimate exemplar of writerly misery, since, according to the famous "testament" addressed to Max Brod, his literary executor, he didn ...

Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including a new season on Radio 3 and Radio 4 looking at the life and legacy Franz Kafka Visionary: Franz Kafka is the subject of a new season on Radio ...

After Amazon Web Services announced it would sell Kafka on its cloud, the creators of the project are introducing a new license. Here's why this is becoming a trend.