Chapter 11. Today’s event processing challenges

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Up to this point we have focused on what might be called state-of-the-art event processing practices. Event processing applications are being developed successfully using the patterns and approaches that we have discussed, but application developers should be aware that there are some challenging topics that are not fully resolved within the current state of the practice. These topics might not have any bearing on your particular application, but you should consider their implications to see if they raise any issues that you need to avoid. The purpose of ...

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