Category: Adapters
Real-Time Predictive Analytics for Web Servers
We recently made the decision to move to Zabbix to monitor one of our busy production Apache web servers. One of the things we need to do in the future is try to predict system outages and take corrective actions before the system actually goes down. For example, recently a busy server experenced an outage [...]
Read moreTwenty Four CEP Public Presentations on SlideShare
For archiving purposes, I have uploaded 24 public CEP presentations that I presented over an 18 month period at various conferences from March 14, 2006 to September 21, 2007. These presentations can be viewed here. For example, my first public CEP presentation: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: event processing) So far, I [...]
Read moreTIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0
I was pleased to read the Paul Vincent’s post, TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0. TIBCO has always had a forward thinking vision for distributed computing and this release of BE 3.0 is another step in the right direction. TIBCO now has the only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) event processing platform on the market that supports distributed event processing, multi-agent [...]
Read moreCEP is Not Low Latency Messaging, EAI or ESB
In respose to CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA, fellow blogger Mark Palmer posts, Smart Order Routing and CEP – Made for Each Other. Mark does a good job describing his perspective on smart order routing (SOR), yet his counterpoint that SOR is “complex event processing” is quite unconvincing. I agree with Mark that SOR is [...]
Read moreThe Kum Bai Ya of Event Processing
Kindred spirit Marc Adler mentions being a bit ”turned off” by the sniping back-and-forth in the CEP/EP blog-o-sphere. This was exactly how I felt in early 2006 when folks were sniping back and forth about SQL standards and event stream processing (ESP). A group of vendors had created some stream processing engines and all were in “power positioning” mode with the acronyms “ESP” and ”CEP”, hoping to ride [...]
Read moreThe Bot Hunter: An Event Processing Challenge (Bot or Not)
Recently we penned The Attack of the Spiders from the Clouds where we mentioned how cloud computing infrastructures can be used to stage malicous or accidential network attacks. Today I challenge our CEP/ESP/EP vendors (or SIs) to create the following solution to detect and block rogue bots on Apache web sites. I will install and [...]
Read moreCEP is to Architecture as SOA is to Architecture
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 [...]
Read moreA Brief Introduction to Blackboard Architectures
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 agents [...]
Read moreMessaging and Event Processing
In On Messaging and Events asks, “Is event processing just fancy name to message processing ?” Most event processing systems would be incomplete without the ability to process events in the form of messages. Messages can be delivered in either a connection-oriented protocol or a connectionless protocol. Most enterprise-class messaging systems have both. Many messaging systems have [...]
Read moreA Blast from the Past: Processing Patterns for Predictive Business, March 2006
For readers interested in complex event processing and a few of the challenges the industry faces, here is a presentation from 28 months back called Processing Patterns for Predictive Business. This presentation was delivered at the first Workshop on Event Processing – Presentations at IBM Research Labs, Yorktown Heights, March 14-16th 2006. The same key points of [...]
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