Today’s nimble and scalable applications are being written to be event-driven. With event-driven applications, processes do their work and then trigger events. Other processes listen for triggered ...

What is an event-driven application? An event-driven application is a computer program written to respond to actions generated by a user or system. In a computing context, an Event is any identifiable ...

What myths surround event-driven architectures, and the truth behind the valuable solution that can provide agility and scalability for software engineers If you think an event-driven architecture isn ...

In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

“Asynchrony” is a scary word. It means taking events as they come, managing somehow to avoid being overtaken by them. Event-driven asynchrony is the foundation of serverless computing, which, as a ...

Amazon Web Services announced a new service today called Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that doesn’t require provisioning of any compute infrastructure. As ...