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Florian Raschbichler , Oct 29, 2019

User Properties - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 6

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT

How the MQTT 5 User Property feature works and what it can do for you.

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Christoph Schäbel, Oct 23, 2019

Improved Client Feedback & Negative ACKs - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 5

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5 IoT

How MQTT 5 improves the transparency of MQTT with more feedback for clients and negative ACKs.

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Florian Raschbichler , Oct 16, 2019

Session and Message Expiry Intervals - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 4

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5 IoT

How the MQTT 5 session and message expiry interval features work and what you need them for.

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The HiveMQ Team, Oct 10, 2019

The HiveMQ Team Is Growing

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Team

We are growing! Meet the new faces behind HiveMQ.

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Ian Skerrett and Florian Raschbichler , Oct 7, 2019

MQTT 5 - Upgrade now. Here's why. - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 3:

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5 IoT

It's time to move to the new protocol standard MQTT 5.0. This post tells you why.

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Mary Brickenstein Hofschen, Oct 1, 2019

Meet the New MQTT 5 Protocol - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 1

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5

Meet MQTT 5: The most extensive and feature-rich update to the MQTT protocol specification ever.

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Anja Helmbrecht-Schaar, Sep 24, 2019

MQTT CLI: Smart, Compact, Open Source

Category: HiveMQ MQTT CLI

We are happy to announce a new open source tool, called MQTT CLI a smart and compact MQTT command line tool.

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Mary Brickenstein Hofschen, Sep 15, 2019

Migrating from HiveMQ 3 to HiveMQ 4

Category: HiveMQ Release MQTT 5 HiveMQ Migration

We’ve got great news for HiveMQ 3 users who are thinking about upgrading to HiveMQ 4: migration just got a lot easier.

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The HiveMQ Team, Sep 11, 2019

Join the Free HiveMQ Webinars

Category: HiveMQ Webinar

Register now for free and join the HiveMQ webinars.

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Simon Baier, Sep 10, 2019

HiveMQ on DC/OS

Category: HiveMQ Cloud Cloud-Native Operations Third Party

A guide to the official HiveMQ service for D2IQ DC/OS.

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Ian Skerrett, Sep 6, 2019

HiveMQ Now Listed as Confluent Verified

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Extension for Kafka

The HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka is listed as a Confluent Verified Standard product.

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The HiveMQ Team, Sep 4, 2019

HiveMQ is exhibiting at the Industry of Things World Berlin 2019

Category: HiveMQ Events

HiveMQ is participating in the Industry of Things World Berlin 2019. Book your meeting with HiveMQ CEO Christian Götz in advance or drop by at our booth.

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The HiveMQ Team, Aug 29, 2019

HiveMQ ESE 1.3 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.3.

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The HiveMQ Team, Aug 20, 2019

MQTT Topics, Wildcards, & Best Practices - MQTT Essentials: Part 5

Category: MQTT Essentials MQTT

Because MQTT decouples the publisher from the subscriber, client connections are always handled by a broker. Before we get into the details of these connections, let’s be clear about what we mean by client and broker.

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The HiveMQ Team, Aug 16, 2019

HiveMQ ESE 1.2 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.2.

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Silvio Giebl, Aug 12, 2019

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.2 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.2.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jul 29, 2019

HiveMQ ESE 1.1 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.1.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jul 17, 2019

MQTT Client and Broker and MQTT Server Connection Establishment Explained - MQTT Essentials: Part 3

Category: MQTT Essentials MQTT

Because MQTT decouples the publisher from the subscriber, client connections are always handled by a broker. Before we get into the details of these connections, let’s be clear about what we mean by client and broker.

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Silvio Giebl, Jul 16, 2019

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.1 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.1.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jul 15, 2019

MQTT Client Tools - The Seven Best Tools

Category: MQTT MQTT Client

This post sums up the seven best MQTT client tools for newbies and experts. There are different tools in the list for Desktop, Android or iOS.

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Ian Skerrett, Jun 14, 2019

Using MQTT and HiveMQ to Build the Connected Car

Category: HiveMQ Connected Car

Creating the Connected Car Platform.

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Silvio Giebl, Jun 11, 2019

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.

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Christian Götz, May 27, 2019

A New Name for dc-square

Category: HiveMQ

Our company dc-square becomes HiveMQ

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The HiveMQ Team, Nov 26, 2018

Two Industry Awards for HiveMQ: German Accelerator and Deloitte

Category: HiveMQ

HiveMQ was awarded with Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award 2018 and was accepted in German Accelerator Tech.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jan 8, 2018

Foundational Changes in the MQTT 5 Protocol - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 2:

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5

Learn about all foundational key changes in the MQTT 5 protocol compared to MQTT 3.1.1

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The HiveMQ Team, Apr 12, 2016

Deploying HiveMQ Cluster With Docker

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

This post shows how HiveMQ can be used with Docker to create a maintainable and scalable HiveMQ cluster with a minimal configuration effort.

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The HiveMQ Team, Apr 4, 2016

Deploying HiveMQ With Docker

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

This post shows how HiveMQ can be used with Docker for creating maintainable, scalable and easy-to-use MQTT server deployments.

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The HiveMQ Team, Oct 26, 2015

HiveMQ - JVM Metrics Plugin

Category: MQTT

JJVM Metrics exposes all available information of the Java Virtual Machine to HiveMQs internal metric registry, to include metrics in the centralized HiveMQ monitoring.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jun 29, 2015

Announcing the MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia

Category: MQTT MQTT Client MQTT Client Library

We are pleased to announce that we will start the MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia Blog post series next week!

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The HiveMQ Team, Jun 22, 2015

MQTT Security Fundamentals - Wrapping up the complete series

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

This is a summary of the MQTT Security Fundamentals Series.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jun 16, 2015

Securing MQTT Systems - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

We'll learn about how to secure MQTT deployments and how to harden the deployment to prevent and mitigate IoT and IIoT attacks.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jun 8, 2015

MQTT Message Data Integrity - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

We'll learn about secure MQTT deployments and how to harden the deployment to prevent and mitigate attacks.

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The HiveMQ Team, Jun 1, 2015

Payload Encryption - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

This post explains why and when MQTT payload encryptions should be used, how it works and what the advantages and disadvantages are.

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The HiveMQ Team, May 25, 2015

OAuth 2.0 & MQTT - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

Learn the basic concepts of OAuth 2.0 and how it plays along with MQTT clients and MQTT brokers.

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The HiveMQ Team, May 25, 2015

X509 Client Certificate Authentication - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

Learn how to add an additional layer of security to MQTT with X509 client certificates and find out the challenges of using this approach

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The HiveMQ Team, May 11, 2015

TLS/SSL - MQTT Security Fundamentals

Category: MQTT Security Fundamentals MQTT IoT Security

Learn about transport encryption with TLS/SSL while implementing MQTT to mitigate IoT attacks.