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Data-Centric, Transaction-Centric
The market (ka-ching!, ka-ching!) for transaction-centric enterprise IT (Information Technology) systems dwarfs that for real-time, data-centric sensor control systems. Because of this market...
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Where’s The Bug?
When you’re designing and happily coding away in the application layer and you discover a nasty bug, don’t you hate it when you find that the chances are high that the critter may not be hiding in your...
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Dissin’ Boost
To support my yearning for learning, I continuously scan and probe all kinds of forums, books, articles, and blogs for deeper insights into, and mastery of, the C++ programming language. In all my...
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Push And Pull Message Retrieval
The figure below models a two layer distributed system. Information is exchanged between application components residing on different processor nodes via a cleanly separated, underlying communication...
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Message-Centric Vs. Data-Centric
The slide below, plagiarized from a recent webinar presented by RTI Inc’s CEO Stan Schneider, shows the evolution of distributed system middleware over the years. At first, I couldn’t understand the...
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Not Either, But Both?
I recently dug up an old DDS tutorial pitch by distributed system middleware expert extraordinaire, Doug Schmidt. The last slide in the pitch shows a side-by-side, high-level feature comparison of...
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