Chapter 12. Emerging directions of event processing
Abraham Lincoln
We started this book by stating that event processing is an emerging technology, and you can experience the current state-of-the-practice using the Event Processing in Action website. Emerging technologies keep moving, and this chapter reflects the personal opinions of the authors about the emerging directions of event processing.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- The authors’ reflections on current trends in event processing
- The authors’ prediction on the future directions of event processing
- A short epilogue to this book
In this section we discuss several trends that we anticipate will have the strongest impact on the direction that event processing will take. The trends we discuss show the technology moving in the following directions: from narrow to wide, from monolithic to diversified, from proprietary to standards-based, from programmer-centric development to semi-technical development, from stand-alone to embedded, and from reactive to proactive.