Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise

Chapter 9Case Study: Event-Driven Productivity Infrastructure

Jerry Seinfeld does a routine where he wonders how mankind discovered that glue can be made from horses. He describes a scene where someone is trying unsuccessfully to stick two pieces of paper together, when, suddenly a horse rides by, causing an instant revelation of potential... “Hey, wait a minute!” he imagines the brilliant inventor saying. “How come I never thought of that before?” So it is, too, in IT. Sometimes, trends of technological innovation exist in parallel for a period of time before someone realizes that they can be put to work together, for a greater effect than either one on its own. There are some great examples of this from the history of technology, including ...