… are, according to Mike Gilpin, events, processes, services and information. How does CEP fit in this? Is it the Fifth Element?
No, but CEP can be described in these terms as…
- a technology for automated processes
- for the continuous processing of events
- made up of 1 or more event-driven event-processing services
- about providing operational information to enable businesses to make (automated or manual) real-time decisions.
Opher responds with his thoughtful view on this on his blog.
Which reminds me that I should really add some new tags in my posts, such as “irreverent”, “humor”, “joke”; and that explanatory tooltips and links don’t show up in some browsers (like my E90). Suffice to say, and just to be clear, CEP is not really “the Fifth Element”…