Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies

by Chandy, K.; Schulte, W. Roy

• ISBN13: 9780071633505
• ISBN10: 0071633502
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The first book to explain how to design and construct event-driven IT systems that are able to respond to unpredictable and asynchronous environments.

Author Biography

K. Mani Chandy, Ph.D., is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has received numerous awards including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi award, and the Babbage Award. Dr. Chandy is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

W. Roy Schulte Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Inc. He was the lead author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term SOA. Mr. Schulte originated the research in the field of message brokers, coined the term business activity monitoring (BAM), and wrote the first analyst reports on the zero-latency enterprise and the enterprise service bus (ESB). Mr. Schulte is a member of the Event Processing Technical Society steering committee.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Event Processing Overview	p. 1
Introduction to Events and Event Processing	p. 1
Business Context	p. 2
Summary	p. 8
Event-Processing Patterns in Business	p. 9
Categories of Business Drivers for Event Processing	p. 9
The Basic Action: An Interaction	p. 14
Time-, Request-, and Event-Driven Interactions	p. 16
Contracts: Formalization of Shared Expectations	p. 24
Hybrid Systems: Combinations of Interaction Types	p. 27
Summary	p. 31
Using Event-Processing in Business Applications	p. 33
Event-Driven Architecture	p. 33
Complex Event Processing	p. 43
Summary	p. 53
Costs and Benefits of Event-Processing Applications	p. 55
Exploiting Events for Business Value	p. 55
Relevance	p. 56
Effort	p. 58
Accuracy	p. 61
Completeness	p. 62
Timeliness	p. 64
Security	p. 67
Summary	p. 70
Types of Event-Processing Applications	p. 71
Features Driving Demand for Event Processing	p. 71
A Framework for Analyzing Which Business Domains Are Suitable for Event Processing	p. 79
Summary	p. 89
Event-Processing Architecture	p. 91
Application Flow	p. 91
Reference Architecture for Event-Processing Networks	p. 94
Implementing the Principles of EDA in an EPN	p. 101
Summary	p. 109
Events and Complex Events	p. 111
Defining "Event" in Earnest	p. 111
Designing Events	p. 114
Complex Events	p. 117
Summary	p. 126
From Architecture to Application	p. 127
Role of Notifications in Business Applications	p. 127
Transactional Notifications	p. 128
Observational Notifications	p. 132
Application Architecture Styles	p. 140
Summary	p. 148
The Role of Event Processing in SOA and Application Development	p. 149
Using Events in SOA	p. 149
Action Items for Successful Event Processing	p. 157
Summary	p. 164
Positioning Event Processing in the IT World	p. 165
Events in Business Process Management	p. 165
Event Processing in Business Intelligence	p. 171
Rule Engines and Event Processing	p. 175
Summary	p. 180
Best Practices	p. 181
Starting Out	p. 181
Pilot Projects	p. 192
Best Practices	p. 194
Summary	p. 201
The Future of Event Processing	p. 203
Solving the World's Problem's One Application at a Time	p. 204
Impact on Society	p. 210
Barriers and Dangers	p. 211
Drivers for Adoption	p. 211
Summary	p. 213
Books and Other Resources	p. 215
Books	p. 215
Articles and Other Works Referenced in the Text	p. 216
Web Resources	p. 217
Glossary	p. 219
Index	p. 227
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