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HiveMQ Team, Apr 6, 2020

HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka 1.1.1 released

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Extension for Kafka

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of the HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka 1.1.1.

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Mary Brickenstein-Hofschen, Mar 23, 2020

Coming to Terms with IoT in 2020

Category: IoT

A short list of IoT-related words and phrases you're sure to bump into in this year.

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HiveMQ Team, Mar 23, 2020

HiveMQ ESE 1.5 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.5.

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Georg Held, Mar 6, 2020

Enhanced Authentication - MQTT 5 Essentials Part 11

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT Security Auth

A deep look into the new MQTT 5 feature: Enhanced Authentication.

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Silvio Giebl, Mar 4, 2020

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.4 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.4.

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Silvio Giebl, Feb 24, 2020

The HiveMQ MQTT Client turns 1 year old

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

Looking back on one year of the HiveMQ MQTT Client.

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HiveMQ Team, Feb 4, 2020

diva-e & HiveMQ IoT Workshop

Category: HiveMQ IoT Partners

In a dynamic workshop together with diva-e, HiveMQ will give insights on how to deploy production IoT applications without creating uneeded complexity.

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Ian Skerrett, Feb 4, 2020

HiveMQ Joins Eclipse Sparkplug Initiative

Category: HiveMQ MQTT

The Eclipse Sparkplug Initiative aims to define a common MQTT data specification to promote interoperability between equipment manufacturers and SCADA vendors.

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Ian Skerrett, Jan 24, 2020

HiveMQ Becomes First Corporate Sponsor of Eclipse Paho

Category: HiveMQ

The success and health of the MQTT community is very important to us at HiveMQ. Therefore, we are happy to announce our sponsorship with Eclipse Paho.

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Florian Raschbichler, Jan 3, 2020

MQTT Topic Alias – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 10

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT

How the MQTT 5 feature Topic Alias works and what you need it for.

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HiveMQ Team, Nov 22, 2019

HiveMQ ESE 1.4 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.4.

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Florian Raschbichler, Nov 21, 2019

MQTT Request-Response Pattern – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 9

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT

How MQTT 5 allows you to implement a request-response pattern and why that's important.

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Silvio Giebl, Nov 21, 2019

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.3 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.1.3.

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Florian Raschbichler, Nov 12, 2019

MQTT Payload Format Description and Content Type – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 8

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT

How the MQTT 5 features Payload Format Indicator and Content Type work and what they can do for you.

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Florian Raschbichler, Nov 5, 2019

MQTT Shared Subscriptions – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 7

Category: MQTT 5 MQTT 5 Essentials HiveMQ IoT

How the MQTT 5 Shared Subscriptions feature works and what it can do for you.

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Florian Raschbichler, Oct 29, 2019

What are MQTT 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

MQTT 5’s Improved Client Feedback & Negative ACKs – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 5

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5 IoT

Learn 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

MQTT Session Expiry 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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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: Seven Reasons to Upgrade to it from MQTT 3.1.1 – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 3

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5 IoT

Looking to upgrade from MQTT 3.1.1 to MQTT 5? Here are seven reasons why you should move to the new protocol.

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Mary Brickenstein-Hofschen, Oct 1, 2019

Introduction to 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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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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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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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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HiveMQ Team, Aug 20, 2019

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

Category: MQTT Essentials MQTT

Learn about MQTT Topics, naming conventions, MQTT $SYS topics, MQTT Prefix, MQTT Topic Wildcards, and more in this MQTT Essentials article.

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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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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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HiveMQ Team, Jul 17, 2019

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

Category: MQTT Essentials MQTT

Discover what is an MQTT Client, an MQTT Broker and how both the client and broker establish a connection.

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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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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.