Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Tim Bass
We have seen a lot of discussions of cloud computing in the news recently, as a technology to permit “users to access technology-enabled services without knowledge of, expertise with, nor control over the technology infrastructure that supports them.” This sounds great doesn’t it?! Users with little to no IT expertise can log into the cloud and [...]
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Complex Event Processing, Cybersecurity, Event Cloud, Event Processing, Financial Services, Threats and Vulnerabilities, Use Cases, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Paul Vincent, ex-colleague at TIBCO, kindly responds to A Brief Introduction to Blackboard Architectures with Blackboards for Complex Event Processing. Paul correctly mentions that TIBCO’s BusinessEvents software is an excellent scheduling component in a blackboard systems architecture.
However, I should briefly clarify Paul’s note that “blackboard systems historically used a single memory model (i.e. [...]
Filed under: Agents, Analytics, Blackboard Architecture, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Event Processing Modelling, Scheduling, Systems Engineering, TIBCO | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Tim Bass
I am often asked pointed questions (mostly from the stream processing crowd) like, ” What product does CEP?” Sometime it seems my answer determines the fate of that relationship, as my feet are grilled over the CEP-fire to be beat of jungle drums! The amount of money I have lost in deals that did not [...]
Filed under: Adapters, Analytics, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, EAI ESB & SOA, EDA, Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, Systems Engineering | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Tim Bass
The admin team at The UNIX Forums have been considering moving the UNIX and Linux Forums to the clouds - the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Amazon EC2 is one option to scale the forums, which is a LAMP application.
Amazon EC2 allows us to rent dedicated servers (instances) on-demand to run applications, such as the forums. Then we can run and [...]
Filed under: Event Cloud, Event Processing, Grid Computing, Systems Engineering, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Tim Bass
Most readers who operate a web site are familar with Google Analytics (GA). GA users add a bit of Javascript on their web pages. The Javascript has tracking code that executes when visitors request web pages. The GA tracking code basically sets or updates cookies on the user’s browser and requests a single-pixel image from the GA [...]
Filed under: CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Event Processing, Event Processing Language, Event Processing Modelling, Modelling and Simulation, Sensor Fusion, Situation Models, Systems Engineering | No Comments »
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Tim Bass
A blackboard architecture is a distributed computing architecture where distributed applications, modelled as intelligent agents, share a common data structure called the “blackboard” and a scheduling/control process. The blackboard can be either centeralized or distributed, depending on the requirements and constraints of the application(s).
To solve a complex problem in the blackboard-style, the intelligent [...]
Filed under: Adapters, Agents, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Blackboard Architecture, Business Event Processing, Business Optimization, CEP Terminology, CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing, Distributed Object Caching, EAI ESB & SOA, Event Processing, Event Processing Modelling, Event-Driven Architecture, Grid Computing, Process Optimization, Scheduling, Sensor Fusion, Systems Engineering | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Professor David Luckham posts a good question in Measuring a Market’s Maturity. Here is a slightly revised reprint of our reply:
A few folks have tried to tie “maturity” to “if the code is robust” or “if the product has certain product features.” The way we have addressed this emerging controversy over at The CEP blog is [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Oddly enough, someone emailed me this quote, found an email signature documented in 1998, from the Linux-Kernel archives:
“Linux is a movement, a philosophy, where programmers and technical people take control of their own destiny.” — Tim Bass
Ref: Email signature, Re: Future of 2.0.36, G.W. Wettstein (greg@wind.enjellic.com), Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:09:27 -0500
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Marc Adler follows on from Muddy Waters to The First Annual Fluffies for CEP where Marc also calls into question the transparency, credibility and accuracy of the various fluffy “awards” we see from time-to-time.
When I discussed this openly with Waters in Muddy Waters comments they kindly replied that “customers are loath to be a reference client for a vendor,” like this fact somehow justifies having [...]
Filed under: Complex Event Processing, Humor | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Sometimes I get email from colleagues who ask me why I am working on compiling CEP/EP reference clients.
My reply is that I don’t care must about reported dollar sales because these numbers are, for the most part, meaningless and mythical at this point in time. Large companies sell enterprise licenses and make up allocated numbers [...]
Filed under: Complex Event Processing, Humor, Off Topic, Risk Management | 1 Comment »
