Flow Architectures

Foreword

As the human race continues its complicated relationship with technology, one thing is abundantly clear, the need for secure hyperconnectivity. Technology is being pushed to its limits to provide more convenience, personalization, or to save us time and money. It is being pushed to do more, and to do it faster and cheaper. How will technology keep up with our demands?

Any technology that we interface with today is a distributed system that involves many components that all need to collaborate and communicate. Every information system, every modern technology, is a distributed system. The way these systems communicate can be viewed in a straightforward manner: they are either making statements or asking questions. Every communication is either trying to let someone else know you did something, or you are asking a question for which you need an answer. Modern terms for these statements are streams and services. All modern distributed systems have service-oriented architecture components, and event stream processing has been rising in popularity.

So, as we continue to push technology forward, how does it need to respond? For systems to do more, they simply need more services and more events. These events and streams form flows of information that enter into the system to be analyzed for patterns, trends, and casualties. These new and expanded services give rise to new ways to interact with the technology, whether as a human or a digital system. For the system to act faster ...