I’m sure you know the seminal Andy Gove book , “Only the Paranoid Survive” it’s a cautionary tale for all successful companies, you never know when a Strategic Inflection Point is going to arrive, or when an upstart competitor is going to eat your lunch!
The “cloud” — ubiquitous and accessible network, compute and storage. It has radically changed how we create software products and think about software engineering, in some quite profound ways.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the ubiquitous deployment of sensors, actuators, networking and small computers into the physical world.
The title comes from David Luckham’s great book of the same name.
Over the past three years of so I have been helping to define and build IBM ODM Decision Server Insights, a platform for distributed event processing based on business rules technology. As Chief Architect I’ve had the opportunity to speak to many IBM customers and prospects about their event processing challenges, as well as gaining an understanding of the market dynamics and major players.
Fundamentally event processing platforms allow companies to process event streams, looking for interesting patterns in those event streams and triggering an action when a pattern of interest is detected. Event streams may be high or low volume, and patterns may be simple or complex. In many cases multiple streams are combined (joined/fused) to create a consolidated stream.
A “block chain” is software that allows a network of companies (typically trading partners) to each keep a copy of an electronic ledger (list of transactions) whilst ensuring that each copy is in sync with the others, and that the ledger cannot be accidentally or maliciously updated by one (or more) of the partners without agreement from the majority.
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