Complex Event Processing: not an architecture issue

In his 2002 book “The Power Of Events” David Luckham, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and one of the founders of Rational Software, outlines a set of tools and techniques – referred to as Complex Event Processing (CEP) – for analyzing and controlling the complex series of interrelated events that drive modern information systems. CEP, he claims, is “emerging technology” that can be “applied to a broad spectrum of information system challenges.” Whilst clearly an academic tome, Luckham’s book had a commercial impact, not least at Gartner which introduced yet another entry into the TLA lexicon that permeates our industry: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Tibco’s BusinessEvents product and Apama’s (acquired by Progress Software) Event Stream Processing technology are also heavily influenced by CEP.

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