Great job on the article! I see allot AMQP for transactions in there, in a positive way. Is that a shift in your opinions on AMQP as well, or was this already your view? Do you see Kafka less suited for transactions? You didn't seem to put allot of attention to Kafka and transactions

kafka is similar to AMQP very well suited for transactions, and we have been using it for years now as the backbone

How do you manage the data contracts for enterprises? We’re on a AMQP - MassTransit project, and I think it’s a brilliant way of doing the contracts. Just a shame it’s only for .net, so we had to make our own python version of it 😅

the data contracts are built into the UMH, and we are developing a UI to "visualize" them in the Management Console as well

Ok, cool! And what if you want to use UMH for custom transactional stuff between MES and ERP for example, do you give a way within UMH to build datacontracts? Like a protofbuf repo or something?

the idea is to do it with JSON and to provide management tools to do it with that, yes 🙂