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Diffusion 6.1 extends conflation to manage data delivery to slow or disconnected clients

27th April, 2018

In Push Technology’s ongoing effort to simplify data management, optimization, and integration for companies developing business critical applications, Diffusion 6.1 adds new capabilities to manage data delivery to slow or disconnected clients. Introduction Diffusion uses topics to deliver data to clients via a publish and subscribe interaction model. A Diffusion topic is an identified stream…

Diffusion 6.1 introduces powerful new features for dynamic topic management

27th April, 2018

In Push Technology’s ongoing effort to simplify data management, optimization, and integration for companies developing business critical applications, Diffusion 6.1 introduces a pair of powerful new features: automatic topic removal and topic ownership. Introduction Diffusion uses topics to deliver data to clients via a publish and subscribe interaction model. A Diffusion topic is an identified stream…

Building on Value Streams

16th September, 2016

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….

Diffusion Cloud on Bluemix: Publish to a JSON topic in 5 steps

12th July, 2016

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. Use the Diffusion Java API to create a JSON topic and publish…

insideBIGDATA: Above the Trend Line

23rd June, 2016

There is so much happening in the Big Data space, that we’re pleased to bring you this list of news snippets. In new product news, Push Technology unveiled a new approach to realtime messaging with its product, Diffusion Cloud. With a revamped pricing model designed to lower application costs, and patent-pending efficiency features for streaming…

Almost everything about replication (pt. 3, Hazelcast)

23rd January, 2015

And now my third blog post on replication – I hope you liked the last two. This will be the last, at least until some new replication changes are made (writing these posts has given me some great ideas). In this post I am going to talk about Diffusion’s implementation of replication using Hazelcast as a provider. This…

Almost everything about replication (pt. 2, topics)

18th December, 2014

Welcome to the second of my blog posts about replication! This time it is topic replication’s turn and it’s a long one. Topic replication allows topics to be created, updated and managed across the entire cluster from a single node. Again the information in this post deals specifically with releases 5.0 and 5.1. You should know that…

5 Data Distribution Capabilities Needed for Quality of Service

20th February, 2014

Quality of Service (QoS) used to relate to the overall performance of a network or a computer as seen by users. Most QoS technologies help to handle bandwidth, re-routing or data compression so that you can ensure good connectivity and application performance. This however is not enough. To deliver true QoS for mobile and web…