Chapter 1. Rules Declarative Nature

We developers have always had to deal with the complex problems in software development and they're not going to get any simpler in the future. Systems such as fraud detection software, shopping carts, activity monitors, credit and finance applications, and generally any type of systems that take isolated pieces of data and make a decision based on this information is a very common thing nowadays. Not only is there a necessity to correlate all this data, but also do it as fast as possible for more data each time, and be able to update the correlation mechanisms in a quick manner.

Great expectations spring from this sort of system, of which one of the most trending right now is the Internet of Things. As more ...

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