Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

#RabbitMQ crashing at restart with “badmatch, error, not_a_dets_file”

By | May 10, 2022

RabbitMQ is a nice message queue server used in lot of networking monitoring appliances and other services. It has a very small footprint and can be integrated with lots of languages and resources. All works well until you get the famous recovery log corrupted error. Usually the issue is caused by disk full or in… Read More »

#Bash one liner: Remove all occurrences of a tag block from an XSD or XML file using #sed #xmlstarlet

By | April 1, 2022

Sometimes you get some XLS schemas that are full of additional annotations and comments you want strip. Annotations and comments are nice but annoying when trying to compare two incremental versions of some schema and try to pin point just the differences. Bellow there is a script used to remove all comments and the <xs:annotation>… Read More »

#Optimize #Jboss EAP 7.x embedded #Artemis messaging server for high volumes

By | February 23, 2022

There are several configurations that will prepare the embedded Jboss EAP 7.x Artemis messaging server for a production environment with high volumes. The following is a non exhaustive list of optimizations I discovered during several performance tests. Most of the settings is assumed that are done from jboss-cli. Disable client pre-fetch of messages: This will… Read More »

How to make #ActiveMq a cluster ready service using #bash scripts and #API calls

By | May 23, 2022

ActiveMQ is a very nice and powerful open source, multi-protocol, Java-based message broker. It is a very popular software used to bridge between loose components of an environment that consists of several services. To make it really useful in a modern architecture of a complex software product we must prepare ActiveMQ to be very easily… Read More »