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 ...

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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 the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

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

The interest in state machines started in the 1950s when George Moore and Edward Mealy published seminal papers on formal methods of designing digital circuits, which generate outputs based on the ...

Event-driven microservices are an excellent way to deliver both historical and new data to all of the systems and teams that need it, but they come with additional overhead and management requirements ...