Software Pipelines and SOA: Releasing the Power of Multi-Core Processing

Chapter EightPipelines by Example: Introducing the Pipelines Bank Corporation

To illustrate SPOC and the Pipelines Patterns, we’ll use a series of concrete examples featuring a fictitious company, the Pipelines Bank Corporation (PBCOR). PBCOR is a new contender in the banking industry, expanding quickly through organic growth and the acquisition of smaller banks. Management is highly innovative, and they want to make dramatic changes by adding new, unique features to attract customers—features, of course, that utilize the high-performance capabilities of Software Pipelines. PBCOR is also facing escalating transaction volume in the near future. However, if it can increase the performance potential in its systems, PBCOR will be able to ...