PlusOne - ActiveMQ 6.1.7 and Beyond with Matt Pavlovich

Written By Christopher Aamold

Rich Bowen and Matt Pavlovich discuss the evolution of ActiveMQ Classic, highlighting the transition from Java to Jakarta ecosystem and the release of ActiveMQ 6.0, which introduced Jakarta support and JMS 2.0. ActiveMQ 6.1 focuses on fixes and observability improvements, with 6.2 set to introduce a new configuration system and virtual threads. Pavlovich emphasizes the importance of unit tests and modernization efforts, such as MQTT 5 support and JDK 17/21 adoption. The project aims to enhance observability, support cloud environments, and make ActiveMQ easier to embed in applications.

Christopher Aamold

Christopher Aamold, the Chief Executive Officer at HYTE Technologies, has spent 16 years working across billion-dollar telecom and startups. He was part of the core team behind one of Texas's largest data transformation programs, a multi-year effort involving thousands of people. He went on to co-found Media Driver, a firm known for supporting some of the largest Apache ActiveMQ deployments in production, and over time moved the company from consulting services into building its own messaging platform tooling, which laid the groundwork for HYTE Technologies. These days his attention is on helping companies untangle and modernize the messy data systems that most businesses quietly run on.

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