Fundamentals of Stream Processing (IBM InfoSphere Streams, TIBCO StreamBase, Apache Storm) – Book Review

Internet of things, cloud and mobile are the major drivers for stream processing. Use cases are network monitoring, intelligent surveillance, but also less technical things such as inventory management or fraud detection. The book helps a lot to get a basic understanding about history, concepts and patterns of the stream processing paradigm.
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Slides from OOP 2014 Online: Next-Generation BPM – How to create intelligent Business Processes thanks to Big Data

Slides from OOP 2014 Online: Next-Generation BPM – How to create intelligent Business Processes thanks to Big Data. Content: Business processes are often executed without access to relevant data because technical challenges occur when trying to integrate big masses of data from different sources into the BPM engine. Companies miss a huge opportunity here! This session shows how to achieve intelligent business processes to improve performance and outcomes by integrating big data – just with open source tooling.
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Yet another new Camel book: “Apache Camel Messaging Systems” (Danger of Confusion) – PACKT PUBLISHING

“Apache Camel Messaging System” is a new book (see http://www.packtpub.com/apache-camel-messaging-system/book) published on September, 25th, 2013 by PACKT PUBLISHING (ISBN: 9781782165347). Author is Evgeniy Sharapov. As it’s subtitle says, the book describes how to “tackle integration problems and learn practical ways to make data flow between your application and other systems using Apache Camel”. Apache Camel is the best integration framework “on the market”. It has very good domain specific languages, many connectors, different companies behind it, and an awesome worldwide open source community. So, seeing a new book about Apache Camel is always good news!
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Book Review: “Apache Camel Message Routing”

“Apache Camel Message Routing” is a new book published by PACKT PUBLISHING. Author is Bilgin Ibryam. As it’s subtitle says, the book describes how to “route, transform, split, multicast messages, and do much more with [Apache] Camel”. Apache Camel is the best integration framework “on the market”. It has very good domain specific languages, many connectors, different companies behind it, and an awesome worldwide open source community. So, seeing a new book about Apache Camel is always good news!
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