Colin Clark

Every year, I like to decompress a bit and take a break. Usually, I like to go scuba diving – the dive sites I like are usually far removed from email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. and it gives me a chance to actually unplug, defrag, and think a bit. This year, the family went to Grand Cayman to experience some of the world’s best diving. Within Grand Cayman is Hell, a small township dedicated to tourism and aptly named given the attached photo. We visited Hell in between dives, and rather than make my ex-wife room reservations or send out postcards, I thought I’d amplify a few predictions I’d made earlier after the benefit of some quality thinking time. So here they are: Cloud based services will finally hit Wall Street in 2011. It makes a lot of sense for firms to offer shared access to things like market data and to provide elastic resource for its manipulation. It d... (more)

CEP in the Cloud

I’ve spent the last couple of days, after absorbing the Sybase acquisition of Aleri’s assets, looking at the various CEP players websites for evidence of cloud (grid name du jour) deployment. I haven’t found anything worth mentioning.  That’s not to say that I might have missed something.  But my guess is that with all the economic woes lately, that the CEP vendors have either chosen to ignore or just simply aren’t aware that the rest of the world is actually solving real problems with cloud deployments. Which is interesting. It’s interesting because one of the pioneers in CEP &... (more)

An Unabashed Plug for Ulitzer

New Media on Ulitzer I was recently introduced to this site. And I like it a lot. You can check out my contributions there by clicking on this link. Also please see CEP on Ulitzer. ... (more)

Real CEP – Cloud Event Processing

Ok, so if you’ve been following along, you’ll already know: Installed RabbitMQ, and Written a Twitter OnRamp that subscribes to a sample Twitter feed and publishes it on RabbitMQ, and Written a RuleBot that takes the tweet and breaks it into chunks, putting the chunks back onto the bus. And now I’m going to show the Esper code that gives us the top URL’s in the last X seconds found in the Twitter feed.  Here’s a screenshot. Here’s some output in text mode (easier to read): Event received: {URL=http:\\cnn.com, Total=731} Event received: {URL=http:\\colinclarkeventprocessing.com, Tot... (more)

Just When I Thought I Was Done… Bring on the Visualization!

“They pulled me back in.” – The God Father. I’ve received some interest/emails about TwitURL – our Map/Reduce as it applies to CEP (cloud event processing) project.  Seems that people would like to see the results of these processes visually.  Who can blame them, right?  So, I was thinking, how can I add a little sizzle to TwitURL? Panopticon Panopticon offers some pretty slick visualization capabilities – you can check them out here.  And based upon some feedback/requests, I’m going to hook up a heat map to the output of TwitURL.  The heat map will show which URL’s are the hott... (more)