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HiveMQ Team, Jun 8, 2020

HiveMQ ESE 1.5.3 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.5.3.

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HiveMQ Team, May 29, 2020

HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka 1.2.1 released

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Extension for Kafka

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of the HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka 1.2.1.

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HiveMQ Team, May 29, 2020

HiveMQ ESE 1.5.2 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.5.2.

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HiveMQ Team, May 12, 2020

Comparison of MQTT Support by IoT Cloud Platforms

Category: HiveMQ Cloud IoT Cloud MQTT

What MQTT standards are supported by IoT platforms like AWS IoT, MS IoT Hub and HiveMQ Cloud? A detailed analysis.

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Mary Brickenstein-Hofschen, May 4, 2020

IoT on the Edge with HiveMQ

Category: HiveMQ MQTT IoT

IoT Communication with MQTT, HiveMQ, and Azure IoT Edge.

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Florian Raschbichler, Apr 27, 2020

Top 5 Best Practices when Scalability testing your MQTT Broker

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Testing IoT

A list of best practices that ensure success when you are scale testing the MQTT broker in your IoT application.

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HiveMQ Team, Apr 24, 2020

MQTT Tutorial: An Easy Guide to Getting Started with MQTT

Category: MQTT MQTT Essentials IoT Protocols

Get started with MQTT using this step-by-step tutorial. Enhance your IoT applications with reliable and scalable messaging.

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HiveMQ Team, Apr 23, 2020

HiveMQ ESE 1.5.1 released

Category: HiveMQ ESE IoT Security

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.5.1.

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Yannick Weber, Apr 22, 2020

HiveMQ Testcontainer Released

Category: HiveMQ Testing Test Container MQTT Client

We released the official HiveMQ Testcontainer.

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Silvio Giebl, Apr 21, 2020

The HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.2.0 is released

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Client MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ MQTT Client 1.2.0.

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Magi Erber, Apr 16, 2020

Guarantee Message Integrity between Kafka and MQTT

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Extension for Kafka Schema Registry

New Features for the HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka enable support of Confluent Schema Registry and JSON schema in Local Schema Registry.

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Till Seeberger, Apr 8, 2020

MQTT CLI 1.2.0 released

Category: MQTT CLI MQTT Client HiveMQ MQTT Client

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of MQTT CLI 1.2.0.

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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 31, 2020

Making the Internet of Things

Category: IoT

Tracing the unusual history of the people and things that created IoT.

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Michael Walter, Mar 26, 2020

Top 10 IoT Scalability Tests for an MQTT Broker

Category: HiveMQ MQTT Testing IoT

Describing some key criteria when evaluating MQTT brokers to ensure the successful deployment/operation of an MQTT system.

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Magi Erber, Mar 23, 2020

Authentication of IoT devices with LDAP

Category: IoT Security LDAP HiveMQ ESE

HiveMQ Enterprise Security Extension 1.5 now supports authentication and authorization of IoT devices and HiveMQ Control Center users utilizing an LDAP services.

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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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Yannick Weber, Mar 17, 2020

HiveMQ Community Edition in a test container

Category: HiveMQ Testing Test Container MQTT Client

Learn how to integrate a HiveMQ Community Edition test container in your test environment.

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Yannick Weber, Mar 9, 2020

Implementing MQTT Challenge-Response Authentication

Category: HiveMQ MQTT 5 IoT Security

Learn how to integrate challenge-response authentication into a HiveMQ extension.

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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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Anja Helmbrecht-Schaar, Feb 27, 2020

Reference Architecture for VDA5050

Category: MQTT HiveMQ

The association of German car manufacturers (VDA) published a specification for the communcation between Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGV) and a control center. HiveMQ now provides a whitepaper with a reference architecture using MQTT as communication protocol.

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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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Dominik Obermaier and Ian Skerrett, Jan 28, 2020

Introducing HiveMQ Cloud

Category: HiveMQ Cloud Cloud

We are excited to announce the launch of HiveMQ Cloud - a cloud-native IoT messaging solution that simplifies bi-directional, device-to-cloud communication.

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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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Silvio Giebl, Jan 8, 2020

HiveMQ CE is now available on Docker Hub

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ CE

The HiveMQ team is pleased to announce the availability of HiveMQ CE on Docker Hub.

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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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Georg Held, Nov 27, 2019

Integrating HiveMQ with Okta

Category: HiveMQ IoT Security HiveMQ ESE Okta JWT OAuth

How to integrate HiveMQ with Okta identity management.

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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.