Real CEP News: Amazon Announces Elastic MapReduce

Yesterday Amazon announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web-based service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.  Amazon Elastic MapReduce utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage [...]

Reasoning and Complexity

In a short follow-up to CEP Software Saves the Universe!, I thought it would be helpful to post some quotes from Wikipedia on reasoning and complexity.
Cognitive science sees reasoning by the analogy to a data processing, where relations between observed properties of reasoning are used in numerous models leading to evident logically correct conclusions in [...]

Real-Time, Online and Offline Complex Event Processing

Using NIST as computer science reference, an online algorithm is an algorithm that processes data (including events) element-by-element (and event-by-event), serially without having the entire problem space available from the beginning.  In contrast, an offline algorithm is provided the entire problem set from the start.
Hence, real-time event processing applications generally involve online processing.  Offline processing is useful when creating models [...]

Peter Lankford, Founder & Director of STAC, on CEP, ESP and EPP

The following is a reprint of Peter Lankford, Founder & Director of STAC comment on CEP, ESP and EPP.  This is one of the best comments on CEP, ESP and EPP I have read.
Peter Lankford
Founder & Director, STAC
I’ve read the blog for some time and have been meaning to contribute some thoughts on vocabulary. By [...]

Event Processing Platforms (EPP)

In Streambase Again!!!!  Arghhhhh!, Marc Adler concludes,
“This is why organizations like STAC Research are so important to our industry.”
STAC has publicly stated that the stream processing engines they evaluate should not be called “complex event processing” platforms.  STAC refers to these this class of software as “event processing platforms” (EPP).
“EPP is a fairly new product [...]

Will Commercial CEP Engines Replace Algorithmic Trading Platforms?

Sometimes I think Marc Adler is reading my mind, and I wonder how he does it.  I have been thinking for weeks about writing a detailed post about why Algorithmic Trading is not Complex Event Processing; but then Marc pens the thoughtful, Do You Really Need a Commercial CEP Engine?
In his post, Marc [...]

Wall Street Firms Using CEP to Measure and Manage Risk

Oct 27, 2008
By Penny Crosman
URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211300559
One of the many effects of the credit crisis is that Wall Street firms have found a new focus for their complex event processing projects. Although they’re not abandoning CEP-based algorithmic trading, new CEP initiatives are focused on measuring and managing risk.
With its ability to watch and apply business [...]

The Genesis of Complex Event Processing: Asymmetric Capabilities

More often than not, folks working in the field of complex event processing do not truly understand CEP.   We often see the same folks try to position and mischaracterize CEP as business process orchestration, business process management, event-driven architecture or even an evolution of service-oriented architecture.    Well-intended, this mischaracterization of CEP is often for sales [...]

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