This will be a four-part blog, describing how we can change the world of auto insurance using realtime analytics and optimized communication for devices connected via an unreliable mobile network. We’ll be looking at the opportunities to leverage realtime data using Push Technology’s Diffusion Cloud, IBM’s Watson, IBM’s Streaming Analytics, and IBM’s Cloudant product. As with…
In DiffusionTM 5.7 we introduced data types, value streams, Binary topics and JSON topics. Together they streamline much of the work that previously would have required application code, but they still don’t do everything. Value streams are an enhanced version of topic streams that receive typed values instead of Content objects that might contain a delta to a value….
We know you love developing for Android. Its APIs are in familiar Java making for an easy entry into developing. The open platform provides you deeper access to a device’s operating system. The quick approval time lets you get your apps to market and iterate them rapidly. The downside, however, of Android, is that its…
Talk to any of the integration vendors today and they will, at some point, mention fast data. The analysts will do the same. Go back a few years and the conversation was all about big data, the notion that events and business processes occurring and running both within and outside of your organisation generated huge…
A recent release of Diffusion Cloud added C to the list of APIs we provide for users of our cloud service. We’re pretty excited about this and here’s why. C is one of the most versatile and enduring programming languages. It’s not hard to see why: it’s universally available, has no platform or vendor lock-in, it’s…
In Gartner’s recent Hype Cycle for Application Development, “Reactive Programming” lies at the peak of inflated expectations – no doubt the hype is real, but we believe the promise is too! To date, we haven’t really seen many reactive implementations in the wild. Sure, developers and architects are thinking more about scalability and resilience, but…
This article is about the system authentication handler in Diffusion and Diffusion Cloud. It is part of a series of articles covering Diffusion and Diffusion Cloud security features. As usual, most of what you will read here applies equally to Diffusion and Diffusion Cloud. In the previous article, we saw how to control who can…
Over the past few years many people – I amongst them – have spent countless hours convincing you that RESTful interfaces can (and have) changed the face of application integration. But it’s 2016, and as ever, market forces now dictate that REST and HTTP aren’t suitable or effective in every integration scenario. In previous blogs…
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an incredibly versatile, simple to understand, and lightweight data format. Though it has JavaScript in the name, as a text-based format, it is language independent and provides a perfect way to transmit data that has an inherent structure. In my first post, I showed how you can publish to a…
This is the first in a series of articles covering security features first introduced in Diffusion 5.0, and extended in later releases. I’ll assume Diffusion 5.5 or later because of the declarative authorization features added in that release. Most of what you will read here also applies to Diffusion Cloud. The focus of this article…