Amazon SQS Gains FIFO Queues

Amazon has added FIFO (first-in-first-out) queues as a new SQS service type, although the trade-off is that they are rate-limited to 300 messages-per-second, compared with the ‘almost unlimited’ capability of the standard SQS queues.



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Spring Boot Metrics integration with TICK Stack

At the moment Spring Boot does not have an Activator integration for InfluxDB and the TICK stack. It is being tracked as an enhancement as Issue 5688 and is currently scheduled for Spring Boot 1.5.0. Until there is an out-of-the-box implementation, this article explains what you need to do to get a Spring Boot application talking to InfluxDB database, using version 1.4.1.RELEASE of Boot.



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