StreamInsight – pulling CEP upstream?  |  September 23, 2009  

Last month Microsoft StreamInsight went public. This software provides a platform for developing and deploying complex event processing applications based on recognizing patterns and enabling an organization to act upon them. "Its high-throughput stream processing architecture and the familiar .NET-based development platform enable developers to quickly implement robust and highly efficient event processing applications. Typical event stream sources include data from manufacturing applications, financial trading applications, Web analytics, or operational analytics. StreamInsight enables you to develop CEP applications that derive immediate business value from this raw data by lowering the cost to extract, analyze, and correlate the data and by allowing you to monitor, manage, and mine the data for conditions, opportunities, and defects almost instantly."

Complex event processing (CEP) is something I used to interact with the Tandem folks (ZLE) on back in the mid 90s. In the mid part of this decade, it generated a lot of hype and then fell into the hype cycle Trough of Disillusionment. Hopefully tools like StreamInsight will help drive in back up the slope of enlightenment, using the significantly more powerful computer resources available today. I fully expect this kind of pattern recognition to be built into most cloud services.

Charlie Bess
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