Jun 23

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DEBS08 Conference

Next week, I’m attending the DEBS 2008 conference in Rome. The conference is a great occasion for people from the academic and industrial worlds to mix and share ideas. Unfortunately, I’ll be cutting my attendance short due to customer commitments, but I am looking forward to seeing how event processing is maturing as a technology on many fronts. The DEBS conference pushes large scale considerations to the fore, and focuses less on the minutiae of implementation such as event processing languages or correlation techniques. Instead, discussions will tend to focus on the distributed aspect of event processing, with issues such as security, availability and reliability, volumes, filtering, event ordering, and synchronization all being presented. And I’m especially looking forward to the software demonstrations.