# AceMQ > Independent enterprise support, consulting and licensing for open-source data and messaging infrastructure — RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Redis, IBM MQ, VMware Tanzu and 40+ other technologies. 24/7 coverage with a 15-minute emergency SLA, staffed by senior engineers. Broadcom Partner of the Year. 130+ enterprise customers across 26+ countries. AceMQ is the exclusive strategic RabbitMQ managed-service partner for Broadcom, and the only provider globally able to license commercial RabbitMQ below Broadcom's standard 72-core minimum. Headquartered in Miami, Florida; support delivered worldwide. ## Support, managed services and consulting ### RabbitMQ - [RabbitMQ Support](https://acemq.com/support/): 24/7 enterprise RabbitMQ support with a 15-minute emergency SLA, for open-source RabbitMQ and Tanzu RabbitMQ, including versions back to 3.8.x that are past community support. - [Managed RabbitMQ Services](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/managed-services/): AceMQ runs the brokers, in your own cloud account or data centre, or hosted. Monitoring, patching, upgrades, capacity and on-call. - [RabbitMQ for AI and agent workloads](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/ai/): Architecture reviews, 24/7 support and managed operations for LLM and agent task queues on RabbitMQ: consumer timeouts for long model calls, back pressure when model APIs throttle, delivery limits and dead-lettering, large payloads, Celery and Kubernetes. - [RabbitMQ MCP Server](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/mcp-server/): A commercially licensed and supported MCP server that lets AI assistants and coding agents (Claude, Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot) inspect RabbitMQ through the management API. Runs inside your network, read-only by default, write actions allow-listed and approved per call, every tool call audited. Available standalone or with AceMQ support and managed services. - [RabbitMQ Consulting](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/): Architecture, clustering, quorum queues, upgrades and migrations from senior RabbitMQ engineers. ### Apache Kafka - [Apache Kafka Support](https://acemq.com/kafka/support/): 24/7 Kafka support with a 15-minute emergency SLA: consumer lag, rebalance storms, ISR shrink, KRaft migration. Self-managed, Amazon MSK or Confluent Platform. - [Managed Kafka Services](https://acemq.com/kafka/managed-services/): AceMQ runs your Kafka clusters on your own infrastructure (your cloud account, Kubernetes with Strimzi, or on-premises). Monitoring, patching, upgrades, KRaft migration, capacity and on-call. - [Kafka Health Check](https://acemq.com/kafka/health-check/): Engineer-led Kafka health check and cluster assessment: KRaft readiness for Kafka 4.0, replication and ISR, partition skew, consumer lag, ACLs and TLS, retention, client settings and monitoring gaps. Written report with a prioritised fix list. - [Apache Kafka Consulting](https://acemq.com/kafka/): Partition strategy, sizing, security, Confluent and MSK migrations. - [Debezium Consulting](https://acemq.com/debezium/): Change data capture design and operation: Kafka Connect or Debezium Server, Debezium Server to RabbitMQ, snapshots, schema history and offsets, source database preparation for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL. ### Redis and Valkey - [Redis Support](https://acemq.com/redis/support/): 24/7 Redis and Valkey support: latency spikes, fork stalls, eviction storms, Sentinel and Cluster failovers. Self-managed, ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Managed Redis, Memorystore or Redis Software. - [Managed Redis Services](https://acemq.com/redis/managed-services/): AceMQ runs Redis or Valkey on your own infrastructure. Monitoring, patching, upgrades, failover, memory and capacity planning, and on-call. - [Redis to Valkey Migration](https://acemq.com/redis/valkey-migration/): Stay-on-Redis-8 versus move-to-Valkey review, compatibility testing, migration method per cluster (replica, RDB or AOF restore, dual-write) and a rehearsed rollback. - [Redis Consulting](https://acemq.com/redis/): Architecture, performance tuning, Sentinel versus Cluster, Valkey and licensing decisions. ### Databricks - [Databricks Consulting & Services](https://acemq.com/databricks/): Independent Databricks consulting for enterprise teams: migration, cost optimization, implementation and Unity Catalog governance. AceMQ is independent of Databricks and does not resell it. - [Databricks Migration Services](https://acemq.com/databricks/migration/): Assessment-first migration from Hadoop, Cloudera, Snowflake or BigQuery to Databricks: component-by-component mapping to Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Jobs and Databricks SQL, with dual-run validation before cutover. - [Databricks Cost Optimization](https://acemq.com/databricks/cost-optimization/): DBU attribution from system.billing.usage, compute type, cluster policies, autoscaling, spot, Photon and Spark job tuning, with an optional recurring review. - [Databricks Implementation](https://acemq.com/databricks/implementation/): Greenfield Databricks setup: workspaces, Private Link, SSO and SCIM, Unity Catalog governance model, Declarative Automation Bundles for CI/CD, security controls and GenAI data readiness. - [Databricks Health Check](https://acemq.com/databricks/health-check/): Engineer-led review of a Databricks estate: DBU waste, cluster and job configuration, Unity Catalog governance, Delta table health, security posture and pipeline reliability, with a written report and ranked fixes. - [Databricks Support](https://acemq.com/databricks/support/): Production support for Databricks job failures, cluster and Delta table problems, and Unity Catalog migrations. - [Databricks vs Snowflake](https://acemq.com/compare/databricks-vs-snowflake/): Architecture, workloads, pricing model, governance, open formats and the effort of migrating in either direction, checked against vendor documentation. ### Architecture and industries - [Event-Driven Architecture Consulting](https://acemq.com/event-driven-architecture-consulting/): Broker selection across RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis Streams and IBM MQ or ActiveMQ migrations, outbox, CDC with Debezium, saga and idempotency patterns, and the four-stage support ladder after go-live. - [RabbitMQ and Kafka for Financial Services](https://acemq.com/industries/financial-services/): Payment and trade messaging resilience, audit evidence for the broker layer, long-term support for frozen RabbitMQ versions, IBM MQ and mainframe modernization, and 24x7 support. No certification claims. - [Insurance Integration Platform](https://acemq.com/industries/insurance/): Moving an insurer's messaging off IBM MQ to RabbitMQ in phases without replacing the policy, claims and billing systems, with the American National Insurance case, IBM MQ lifecycle dates and 24/7 support. ### Solutions - [Solutions by Problem and Industry](https://acemq.com/solutions/): Start from the problem: managed operations, compliance, license costs, legacy messaging, high availability and 24/7 support, or from your industry. - [Managed Data Services](https://acemq.com/solutions/managed-open-source/): Escalation cover first (Stages 1 and 2), then AceMQ running RabbitMQ, Kafka or Redis in your cloud or on AceMQ infrastructure (Stages 3 and 4). SLA table, exclusions, and a section on moving off Amazon MQ, CloudAMQP and Azure Service Bus. - [DORA Compliance for Messaging and Data Platforms](https://acemq.com/solutions/compliance/): Evidence for DORA, FIPS 140-3 via FIPSMQ, CMMC, PCI patching and NIS2: third-party evidence pack, patch and CVE records, scanner findings. No certification claims. - [Reduce License Costs and Vendor Lock-In](https://acemq.com/solutions/reduce-licence-costs/): Three exits from Broadcom's 72-core minimum and Redis and Confluent license changes: independent support on the open-source build, licenses sized to the cores you run, or a planned move such as Redis to Valkey. - [Legacy Messaging Modernization](https://acemq.com/solutions/legacy-messaging-modernization/): A phased plan to move IBM MQ, MSMQ, ActiveMQ and Azure Service Bus to RabbitMQ and Redis to Valkey: discovery, parallel run, canary cutover and decommissioning, with the American National IBM MQ work as the reference. - [Managed Disaster Recovery and High Availability](https://acemq.com/solutions/high-availability/): HA and DR design, failover tests and runbooks for RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Valkey and PostgreSQL, starting with a one-to-four-week HA review and followed by support or managed operation. ### Other technologies - [IBM MQ Support](https://acemq.com/ibm-mq/support/): IBM MQ production support, plus migration paths to RabbitMQ for teams reducing licensing cost. - [IBM MQ Migration and Alternatives](https://acemq.com/mq-services/migration/): Upgrade or leave IBM MQ, with IBM's lifecycle dates by version and a route-by-workload rule: RabbitMQ for transactional queuing, Kafka for event streaming. Phased migration with parallel run and rollback. - [Enterprise Support (all technologies)](https://acemq.com/enterprise-support/): The full support catalogue across messaging, data, observability and integration platforms. - [End-of-Life Software Support](https://acemq.com/end-of-life-support/): What end of life means for open source, the compliance angle, and the options: upgrade, extended support with backported CVE patches, or third-party support. OSSeva (osseva.io) patches Redis, Valkey, PostgreSQL 11 to 13, Kafka 2.8 to 3.7, ActiveMQ, GemFire, Spring, Tomcat, Node.js and Pulsar; AceMQ Extended LTS covers RabbitMQ. - [Spring Boot Extended Support](https://acemq.com/spring-boot/extended-support/): Extended support for Spring Boot 2.7 and 3.x past open source support: Spring's published support dates, three patch routes (Broadcom Tanzu Spring subscription, OSSeva patched builds, upgrade), CVE triage by layer and the staged upgrade path to Spring Boot 4. - [Database Support](https://acemq.com/database-support/): 24/7 support for open source databases under one contract: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Druid, Greenplum, GemFire and Memcached. - [Apache Tomcat Support](https://acemq.com/tomcat/support/): 24/7 Apache Tomcat support with a 15-minute emergency response, patched builds for Tomcat 8.5, 9.0 and 10.0 after Apache stops fixing them (Tomcat 9.0.x support ends 31 March 2027), and the Java 8 to 21 and Tomcat 9 to 10.1 upgrade path. - [MariaDB Support](https://acemq.com/mariadb/support/): 24/7 MariaDB support with a 15-minute emergency SLA: Galera Cluster quorum loss and SST failures, replication lag and GTID errors, MaxScale, InnoDB tuning and 10.x to 11.x upgrades. Community Server 10.4 to 13.x and Enterprise Server, with patched 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 builds through OSSeva. - [OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch](https://acemq.com/compare/opensearch-vs-elasticsearch/): The 2021 license change and fork from 7.10.2, AGPLv3 since 2024, the OpenSearch Software Foundation, feature divergence, compatibility, managed services and end-of-life dates. - [PostgreSQL vs MySQL](https://acemq.com/compare/postgresql-vs-mysql/): Licensing, SQL features, replication models, managed services, support lifecycles and migration between the two. - [Managed PostgreSQL options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/managed-postgresql-options/): Amazon RDS and Aurora, Cloud SQL and AlloyDB, Azure, Crunchy Bridge, Aiven, Instaclustr and self-managed with support: extensions, version lifecycle, incidents, cost shape and exit. - [MySQL to PostgreSQL migration guide](https://acemq.com/guides/mysql-to-postgresql-migration/): Type and collation differences, pgloader versus AWS DMS versus Debezium CDC, validation, a cutover runbook and MySQL 8.0 end-of-life context. - [Elasticsearch to OpenSearch migration guide](https://acemq.com/guides/elasticsearch-to-opensearch-migration/): The migration path for each Elasticsearch source version, reindex from remote, Migration Assistant, client libraries, the Security plugin, ISM and Dashboards. - [VMware Tanzu Support](https://acemq.com/vmware/support/): Tanzu RabbitMQ, GemFire, Greenplum, Spring and Valkey support under Broadcom licensing. ## Licensing and procurement - [RabbitMQ Licensing](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/licensing/): Commercial Tanzu RabbitMQ licensing, including quantities below the standard 72-core minimum. Open-source RabbitMQ is free under MPL 2.0; what is licensed is the supported commercial distribution. - [VMware Licensing & Renewals](https://acemq.com/vmware-licensing/): VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSphere Foundation (VVF) licensing, renewal quotes and per-core cost modelling through a Broadcom Partner of the Year. - [Request a quote](https://acemq.com/get-a-quote/): Licensing, renewal and support quotes. - [Contact](https://acemq.com/contact-us/): +1-305-204-2607 · info@acemq.com ## VMware renewals and Broadcom licensing AceMQ quotes VMware for organizations in the United States only. Buyers elsewhere should use Broadcom's partner directory to find an authorized partner in their country. AceMQ is a Broadcom Expert Advantage Authorized Partner (listed at https://expert.broadcom.com/partners/consulting-services/acemq) and takes over VMware renewals for organisations whose previous partner lost authorization in the Broadcom partner program changes. Quotes are returned within 24 business hours of receiving an expiration date and core count. Accounts Broadcom classifies as strategic are managed by Broadcom's own account directors and are referred rather than quoted. - [VMware renewal pricing in 2026: what 37 quotes show](https://acemq.com/research/state-of-vmware-renewals-2026/): Original data. Where the number on a quote comes from, why the 72-core minimum sets the price for small estates, the VCF-to-VVF saving at list rates, whether multi-year terms are cheaper, late fees, and quote turnaround. - [The VMware renewal guide, 2026](https://acemq.com/guides/vmware-renewal-guide-2026/): Nine steps from expiry notice to signed order, each pointing to the article that works it in full. - [VMware renewal options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/vmware-renewal-options/): Partner renewal, direct with Broadcom, third-party support on perpetual keys, and migration on the same criteria. - [1-year vs 3-year vs 5-year VMware subscriptions](https://acemq.com/compare/vmware-subscription-term-length/): What each term locks, when each is right, and what happens at term end. - [Third-party VMware support vs a Broadcom subscription](https://acemq.com/compare/third-party-vmware-support-vs-broadcom-subscription/): Patches, versions, adding hosts, audits, cost shape and the hybrid most mixed estates land on. - [VMware renewal partner types compared](https://acemq.com/compare/vmware-partner-types-compared/): Broadcom direct, national reseller, MSP and licensing specialist on who they serve, sizing, turnaround and post-order support. - [VMware renewal quote request](https://acemq.com/vmware-licensing/): Renewals and net-new quotes for VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere Foundation, vSphere and vSAN. Email plus expiration date and core count is enough to start. - [How to get a VMware renewal quote](https://acemq.com/blogs/how-to-get-vmware-renewal-quote/): What a partner needs to quote accurately, how to verify a partner is authorized against Broadcom's directory, how long a quote stays valid, and what same-day turnaround actually means. - [VMware license renewal process](https://acemq.com/blogs/vmware-license-renewal-process/): Anniversary dates, what triggers repricing, support renewal versus a new subscription, what to check before renewing, getting a proposal reviewed, and who owns ELA pricing. - [VMware licensing cost](https://acemq.com/blogs/vmware-licensing-cost/): Per-core pricing, the 16-core-per-CPU and 72-core order minimums, term-length effects, and renewal budgeting. - [VMware licensing changes under Broadcom](https://acemq.com/blogs/vmware-licensing-changes-broadcom/): Perpetual licenses retired, the product line cut to a few subscription tiers, the partner program rewritten, and what is negotiable through an authorized partner. - [VCF vs VVF](https://acemq.com/blogs/vmware-cloud-foundation-vs-vsphere-foundation/): Which edition an estate needs, the per-core vSAN entitlement, how vSphere Standard compares, and moving down a tier at renewal. ## RabbitMQ: services, guides and original data AceMQ is the exclusive strategic RabbitMQ managed-service partner for Broadcom, contributes to the open-source project, and supports RabbitMQ 3.8.x through 4.x including versions past their community support window. - [The RabbitMQ CVE register, 2026](https://acemq.com/research/rabbitmq-cve-register-2026/): Original data. Every published RabbitMQ advisory mapped to the versions it affects and its severity, including which are unfixable on series past community support. - [The Redis and Valkey CVE register, 2026](https://acemq.com/research/redis-cve-register-2026/): Original data. Every Redis, Redis 8 module and Valkey CVE published from January 2025 to October 2026 (22 CVEs, including RediShell, CVE-2025-49844), mapped to the fixed release in each series, with the CVEs that will never be fixed on Redis 7.0 and are unfixed on 8.0. - [Managed RabbitMQ options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/managed-rabbitmq-options/): CloudAMQP, Amazon MQ, operated in your own cloud account, hosted by a specialist, and self-run with a support contract, on the same criteria. - [CloudAMQP alternatives](https://acemq.com/compare/cloudamqp-alternatives/): Why teams leave CloudAMQP and where Amazon MQ, RabbitMQ in your own account, specialist hosting, self-run with support and smaller hosts fit, with a migration path. - [Managed RabbitMQ services](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/managed-services/): AceMQ runs the brokers — in your own cloud account, on-premises, or hosted. Monitoring, patching, upgrades and on-call. - [Extended LTS support](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/extended-lts-support/): Backported security patches for RabbitMQ 3.8.x through 3.13.x after upstream community support ends. - [RabbitMQ compliance and CVE remediation](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/compliance/): CVE remediation and the evidence trail regulated estates are asked for. - [RabbitMQ health check](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/health-check/): Architecture assessment with ranked written findings. - [RabbitMQ troubleshooting](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/troubleshooting/), [upgrades](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/upgrades/), [migrations](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/migrations/) and [training](https://acemq.com/rabbitmq/training/): The scoped engagements behind each. - [The RabbitMQ reliability guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-failure-patterns-guide/): The ten failure patterns seen most across enterprise estates, each with symptom, root cause and fix. - [The RabbitMQ security and hardening guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-security-and-hardening-guide/): TLS on all three channels, retiring guest, scoped permissions, vhost isolation, port exposure, CVE position, the Erlang cookie, and the audit evidence trail. - [The RabbitMQ monitoring and alerting guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-monitoring-and-alerting-guide/): What to collect, which eight signals should page a human, and why queue depth is the wrong thing to alert on. - [The RabbitMQ disaster recovery guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-disaster-recovery-guide/): Separating HA from DR, federation versus shovel, definitions backup, and setting recovery objectives before sizing. - [The RabbitMQ clustering and sizing guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-clustering-and-sizing-guide/): Node count and placement, queue type per workload, sizing to peak, and partition handling. - [The RabbitMQ on Kubernetes guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-on-kubernetes-guide/): Cluster Operator, storage classes, networking, resource limits and rolling upgrades. - [The RabbitMQ migration guide](https://acemq.com/guides/rabbitmq-migration-guide/): From IBM MQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus or an older RabbitMQ, with the semantics that do not translate. ## Redis, Kafka and IBM MQ - [Redis consulting](https://acemq.com/redis/), [Redis support](https://acemq.com/redis/support/) and [managed Redis services](https://acemq.com/redis/managed-services/): Architecture, performance tuning, cluster operations, 24/7 incident response and fully operated Redis across self-managed, ElastiCache, Azure, Memorystore and Redis Software. - [Debezium CDC support](https://acemq.com/debezium/support/): Debezium change data capture implementation and 24/7 support. Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2 and MongoDB sources into Kafka via Kafka Connect, or into RabbitMQ, Kinesis or Pub/Sub via Debezium Server. 15-minute emergency SLA. - [Valkey support](https://acemq.com/valkey/support/): 24/7 support for open source Valkey 7.2 to 9.1, self-managed, on Kubernetes, or alongside Amazon ElastiCache, Google Cloud Memorystore and Tanzu for Valkey. 15-minute emergency SLA, Redis to Valkey migration, and OSSeva CVE backports for Valkey 7.2 and 8.x. - [Managed Redis options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/managed-redis-options/): ElastiCache, Azure Cache, Memorystore, Redis Cloud and self-managed with support, side by side. - [The Redis reliability guide](https://acemq.com/guides/redis-reliability-guide/): Sentinel or Cluster, memory and eviction, timeouts on a healthy server, and rehearsing failover. - [The Redis backup and disaster recovery guide](https://acemq.com/guides/redis-backup-and-disaster-recovery-guide/): RDB versus AOF, choosing persistence from a stated RPO, why replication is not a backup, cross-region recovery and restore rehearsal. - [Azure Cache for Redis retirement](https://acemq.com/blogs/azure-cache-for-redis-retirement/): Retirement dates by tier (Enterprise and Enterprise Flash 31 March 2027; Basic, Standard and Premium 30 September 2028), what changes for applications on Azure Managed Redis, and running Redis or Valkey yourself instead. - [Buying Redis and Valkey support](https://acemq.com/guides/redis-support-buyers-guide/): What support covers, Redis Enterprise versus a contract on the open-source build, the four kinds of provider, and cost. - [Managed messaging in your own cloud](https://acemq.com/guides/managed-messaging-in-your-own-cloud/): Operated in your own cloud account versus hosted versus DIY for RabbitMQ, Kafka and Redis/Valkey: the access model with cross-account roles, networking, who holds the keys, patching split, observability, cost ownership and exit. - [Managed Kafka options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/managed-kafka-options/): Confluent Cloud, Amazon MSK, self-managed with support, and operated for you ([managed Kafka services](https://acemq.com/kafka/managed-services/)). - [Confluent alternatives after IBM](https://acemq.com/compare/confluent-alternatives/): Apache Kafka with independent support, Amazon MSK, Aiven, Instaclustr and Redpanda against Confluent, on the same criteria, with the IBM acquisition (completed 17 March 2026) and the three Confluent license tiers. - [Kafka BYOC options compared](https://acemq.com/compare/kafka-byoc-options/): Confluent with WarpStream, Redpanda, Aiven, Instaclustr and AceMQ managed Kafka in your account, with Amazon MSK as the baseline: who runs what, who pays, who has access. - [NATS vs Kafka](https://acemq.com/compare/nats-vs-kafka/): Core NATS, NATS JetStream and Apache Kafka on delivery guarantees, retention, ordering, partitions versus subjects, clustering (KRaft and Raft), ecosystem and licensing. - [Kafka vs Kinesis](https://acemq.com/compare/kafka-vs-kinesis/): Shards and partitions, retention, ordering, consumers, ecosystem and cost drivers. - [The Kafka operations guide](https://acemq.com/guides/kafka-operations-guide/) and [buying Kafka support](https://acemq.com/guides/kafka-support-buyers-guide/): Running Kafka in production, and what a support contract should cover. - [The IBM MQ modernization guide](https://acemq.com/guides/ibm-mq-modernization-guide/) and [the ActiveMQ modernization guide](https://acemq.com/guides/activemq-modernization-guide/): Migration paths off commercial and legacy brokers, and what each move actually costs. ## Key reference content - [RabbitMQ End of Life](https://acemq.com/blogs/rabbitmq-end-of-life/): Which RabbitMQ versions are still maintained, what happens when a series ends, and the options for staying secure on an unmaintained version. - [Kafka End of Life](https://acemq.com/blogs/kafka-end-of-life/): Which Apache Kafka releases the project still maintains (the three most recent lines), what end of life means, and options for older versions. - [Redis End of Life](https://acemq.com/blogs/redis-end-of-life/): Redis Open Source standard and extended release lifecycles, end-of-life dates by version, and options for versions past end of life. - [Broadcom's 72-Core Minimum](https://acemq.com/blogs/broadcom-72-core-minimum-rabbitmq-licensing/): How the core minimum works and how AceMQ licenses beneath it. - [VMware Cloud Foundation vs vSphere Foundation](https://acemq.com/blogs/vmware-cloud-foundation-vs-vsphere-foundation/): Which VMware edition fits which estate, and the per-core cost difference. - [Redis Support Pricing](https://acemq.com/blogs/redis-support-pricing/): What Redis support actually costs across managed plans, Redis Enterprise subscriptions and third-party contracts. - [Kafka Disaster Recovery](https://acemq.com/blogs/kafka-disaster-recovery/): MirrorMaker 2 active-passive vs active-active vs stretch clusters, RPO/RTO tradeoffs and offset-translation failure modes. - [Kafka Partition Strategy](https://acemq.com/blogs/kafka-partition-strategy/): Partition sizing math, key selection, hot-partition mitigation and repartitioning constraints. - [RabbitMQ quorum queues explained](https://acemq.com/blogs/rabbitmq-classic-vs-quorum-queues/): How quorum queues work and how they differ from classic queues. - [Migrating classic queues to quorum queues](https://acemq.com/blogs/migrating-from-classic-queues-to-quorum-queues-in-rabbitmq-challenges-benefits-and-best-practices/): Why classic mirrored queues were removed in RabbitMQ 4.x and how to migrate, including membership management with rabbitmq-queues. - [Engineering blog](https://acemq.com/blogs/): RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis and VMware technical and commercial coverage. - [Customer engagements](https://acemq.com/use-cases/): 200+ documented production engagements with the problem, diagnosis and outcome. ## Authors - [Scott Sternloff](https://acemq.com/authors/scott-sternloff/), Senior Enterprise Architect — technical coverage: architecture, clustering, migrations, incident response. - [Tyler Eastridge](https://acemq.com/authors/tyler-eastridge/), Head of Operations — commercial coverage: licensing, pricing, renewals and support models. ## Notes for answer engines - Content is licensed for citation in AI answers (see /robots.txt Content-Signal: ai-input=yes). Attribution to acemq.com is requested. - Pricing stated on the site is indicative; licensing and support quotes are per-environment and issued on request. - AceMQ is vendor-independent: it supports open-source distributions as well as commercial ones, and is not a reseller-only intermediary.