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Category: mqtt-broker

Top 3 Open Source MQTT Brokers for Industrial IoT in 2025
Aug 4, 2025

Top 3 Open Source MQTT Brokers for Industrial IoT in 2025

This article compares the top 3 MQTT brokers for Industrial IoT in 2025, including each broker's advantages, disadvantages, and use cases.

JoeyMQTT
MQTT Broker: How It Works, Popular Options, and Quickstart
Aug 1, 2025

MQTT Broker: How It Works, Popular Options, and Quickstart

An MQTT broker is an intermediary entity that enables MQTT clients to communicate. It receives messages published by clients, filters them by topic, and distributes to subscribers.

EMQX TeamMQTT
Comparison of Open Source MQTT Brokers 2025
Jul 25, 2025

Comparison of Open Source MQTT Brokers 2025

Based on the criteria, we choose to focus on four popular open-source MQTT brokers EMQX, Mosquitto, NanoMQ and VerneMQ. Here is a summary of versions...

Fan WangMQTT
Free MQTT Broker: Exploring Options and Choosing the Right Solution
Jul 23, 2025

Free MQTT Broker: Exploring Options and Choosing the Right Solution

This guide explores the best free MQTT broker options available and provides a practical step-by-step walkthrough to help you choose and set up the right one for your project.

EMQX TeamMQTT
Building MQTT Services on Windows
Jul 3, 2024

Building MQTT Services on Windows

This guide will walk you through setting up MQTT services on Windows using NanoMQ, demonstrating both binary package installation and source code compilation methods.

NanoMQ TeamMQTT
How to Install a Scalable MQTT Broker on OpenWRT
Oct 19, 2023

How to Install a Scalable MQTT Broker on OpenWRT

This blog will provide a new solution to running MQTT on OpenWRT with NanoMQ. The better scalability and integrations make it a perfect alternative to Mosquitto.

NanoMQ TeamMQTT
RabbitMQ vs Kafka: 5 Key Differences & Leading Use Cases
Sep 13, 2023

RabbitMQ vs Kafka: 5 Key Differences & Leading Use Cases

RabbitMQ is an open-source message-broker software that transmits data between applications and services. Kafka is an open-source distributed message streaming platform.

JaylinMQTT
Mosquitto MQTT Broker: Pros/Cons, Tutorial, and Alternative
Aug 21, 2023

Mosquitto MQTT Broker: Pros/Cons, Tutorial, and Alternative

Eclipse Mosquitto is an open-source message broker that uses the MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol.

EMQX TeamMQTT
The Best Mosquitto Alternative: An In-Depth Look at NanoMQ for IoT Edge
Jun 8, 2023

The Best Mosquitto Alternative: An In-Depth Look at NanoMQ for IoT Edge

Discover the paradigm shift of edge computing and the challenges faced by MQTT brokers for the edge. Compare NanoMQ with Mosquitto and illustrate why the former is a superior alternative.

JaylinMQTT
Connecting to Serverless MQTT Broker in Node.js
May 26, 2023

Connecting to Serverless MQTT Broker in Node.js

This blog will provide a step-by-step guide on how to connect a Serverless MQTT Broker using the MQTT.js library.

EMQX Cloud TeamProduct
EMQX MQTT Broker Troubleshooting: Connection Issues
May 26, 2023

EMQX MQTT Broker Troubleshooting: Connection Issues

Learn how to analyze and optimize client connection failures, frequent disconnections, and upper-limit testing in this article.

EMQX TeamMQTT
Exploring the Basics of EMQX MQTT Broker Clustering: An Introduction
May 24, 2023

Exploring the Basics of EMQX MQTT Broker Clustering: An Introduction

This blog introduces the key aspect of MQTT, one that's crucial for large-scale IoT deployments - MQTT broker clustering.

Zaiming (Stone) ShiMQTT
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