This repository contains a set of samples demonstrating how to use the MQ Light Service for Bluemix to write cloud apps which can perform worker offload. It was used to run a lab session at IBM InterConnect 2015

Check out the IBM MQ Light Homepage or the Bluemix documentation for more info on these and other samples.

This lab will teach you how you can improve the responsiveness and scalability of your web applications, both on premise and in the cloud using MQ Light and MQ Light Service in IBM Bluemix.

It will explain how to off-load heavy workloads to separate worker threads while your web handlers deal quickly and efficiently with the requests from your online users.

As software developers we want our applications to be responsive and scalable to really engage users, but it's not always easy to write code that behaves like this. MQ Light and the MQ Light Service in IBM Bluemix are great tools that helps applications off-load work to be dealt with asynchronously thus ensuring your applications responds quickly. Additionally, as workload increases, applications that use MQ Light become very easy to scale up.

You will also learn how to use the MQ Light user interface to understand and debug the messages that your application has sent and received.

Read the [Lab Instructions](Lab Instructions.pdf) to get started.