Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) yesterday announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute ...

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“Asynchrony” is a scary word. It means taking events as they come, managing somehow to avoid being overtaken by them. Event-driven asynchrony is the foundation of serverless computing, which, as a ...

In this lesson, you will learn the main concepts behind event-driven programming, which, after object-oriented programming, is another fundamental stepping stone in understanding modern embedded ...

VMware's multi-cloud-centric flagship conference this year is uniting with the developer-focused SpringOne event. "This year SpringOne is part of VMware Explore Las Vegas and will focus on providing ...

Internet transactions, business-to-business systems, peer-to-peer processes, and real-time workflows are too dynamic and too complex to be modeled by traditional sequential-processing methods.

In today’s dynamic business environment, traditional applications pose significant challenges; hampering agility, scalability, and efficiency — which are all key attributes that organizations strive ...

Akka is an open source, event-driven middleware project. It is designed to allow developers to write simpler, correct concurrent applications using Actors, STM (software transactional memory) and ...

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