Event Processing Conversation Shifts from Research to Practitioners

[Update July 5, 2008 June 2, 2008 March 26, 2008 September 8, 2007 August 19, 2007 August 6, 2007 May 15, 2007 - updated blog list]

In March, as I was sending through a bunch of event processing (EDA, ESP, CEP) related links , JT posted that he sensed CEP was due for an inflection point.  I concur.  While event-driven architectures and event engines (streaming, complex) are not exactly new, the discussions around them became more prevalent and business/practitioner focused after Gartner placed EDA in the August 2006  hype cycle. (EDA is plotted on the "technology trigger" upslope, with a 5 - 10 year mainstream adoption.)

Instead of just streaming event processing related links through, I thought I'd take a minute to post on a collection of event processing related blogs that have good content for practitioners.  Some, like Marco on ESP, have existed for awhile. Others are new.  Here's my first pass at a list:

Aleri CEP Blog - Scott Groenendal, Jack Rusher, Jeff Wootton and friends 

Apama Blog  - John Bates, Chris Martins, and Mark Palmer friends of Progress' Apama

CEP Technology Blog  - Mark Tsimelzon of Coral8

Complex Event Processing - David Luckham, Father of CEP

Marco on ESP CEP - Marco Seiriö of ruleCore

SOA and EDA - Jack Van Hoof, Enterprise Integration Architect

StreamBlog - Barry Morris Mark Palmer of Streambase

Tibco Complex Event Processing - Tim Bass (and others) of Paul Vincent of Tibco

Complex Event Processing - Tim Bass of Tibco SilkRoad

Database Management Services and Text Technologies by Curt Monash

Alexandre Alve's Blog - Architect for BEA WebLogic Event Server

Event Processing Thinking - Opher Etzion, IBM and Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS)

Magmasystems Blog - Marc Alder, CEP Initiative Leader, Wall Street Investment Bank

BAM Blog - Brian Connell and West Global crew

Please share other blogs that should be listed here. 

Comments

[James Taylor]

CEP is certainly an interesting area. I think there is great potential for combining CEP/SOA/BPM and decisioning using rules and analytics and that CEP in particular can maximize the value of automating decisions. I also think that the growing acceptance of rules and analytics as techniques witin CEP should not obscure the fact that managing decisions using these technologies is not the same as just using these technologies within event processing.
JT
Thanks for the list of blogs BTW, I will add them all...

[Jack van Hoof]

Thanks for mentioning my blog, Brenda.

[Tim Bass]

Dear Brenda, Thank you for mentioning the TIBCO CEP Blog. Much appreciated! Also, thank you for your excellent work on this site! Yours faithfully, Tim

[Tim Bass]

Dear Brenda,

If you don't mind, please include my new CEP blog in your list:

http://eventprocessing.wordpress.com

Thanks!

Yours sincerely, Tim

www.timbass.info