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There are always a near infinite number of challenges with launching a new product; even more so if the product is conceptually different than the others in the space. Following the Theory of Constraints, you have to focus on the current constraining...
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The first release candidate of DataRush is now available to download . The main new feature of this release is the support of dataflow graph composition in Java! In the previous releases of DataRush, dataflow graph composition was accomplished through...
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The following is a new white paper written by our Chief Technologist, Jim Falgout. I have copied the text here, but the clean .pdf is also attached and is more complete: Pervasive DataRush™: An Architecture Paper Describing the Highly Parallel Dataflow...
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DataRush is sufficiently sophisticated (or at least different) that understanding it takes several passes. I am writing a series of posts aimed toward exploring what DataRush is and is not. This should give the passing programmer a better feel for what...
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Business integration software today is delivered in different forms; on-premises (OP) , hosted , or as a service (SaaS) . Many vendors would passionately argue one delivery model over the other, making valid arguments about why one may work better than...
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With Bill Gates leaving his day-to-day role at Microsoft, I thought I share the article on the famous Albuquerque Microsoft photo of the orignal members. In deed, we have all changed and been changed because of Microsoft and its famous founder. Enjoy...
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Our support team has posted the latest update for Pervasive PSQL v9.52 (SP2), update 62 is now available for download . This update can be applied to existing versions of Pervasive PSQL v9.50 (SP2) or higher. View the readme for a list of resolved issues...
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I just got back from an HP show where I had some interesting conversations regarding the crisis that hasn't seemed to have happened yet. The key to the Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was this: Why the dog didn't...
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Most software companies that have sold a single byte of code have a smart, slick, thought-up-on-Madison-Avenue slogan that tries to convince you they are the right choice. After hearing thousands of these slogans I have realized they are all saying the...
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PSQL v10.10 is now Generally Available and trial downloads are available now! PSQL v10.10 supports all of the latest Windows releases (Vista, Windows Server 2008, XP SP3) and Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and 10). Click...
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At a recent industry conference, it was shown that the biggest growth area in computing is HPC, or High Performance Computing. This was surprising, even to those in this field, as it has historically been a fairly small, insular, academic area populated...
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The first time I blogged on this, Explaining our secret sauce , I referenced the Wikipedia entry for "dataflow programming". I have subsequently learned that it would be more accurate to point to Kahn Process Networks as the specific type of...
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"...the validity of multi threading is under attack. Veteran programmer Knuth said in a recent interview that multi threading may not be up to the task and could fail. As such, he is "unhappy" with the current trend towards multi-core architectures...
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Before our current crop of graduates were born, there was the movie "The Graduate". One famous scene has our hero walking around at a party in his honor. He is given some sage career advice: "One word. Plastics". The newest member...
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A very clear explanation of why writing parallel apps is a challenge with procedural languages, versus declarative approaches. Although Java is procedural, our Java implementation of dataflow is avoids this pitfall. "The ability to assign a memory...