Before we delve into the inner workings of the technology, let us start with a little nostalgia of how it all began.
"Welcome to the Time and Event Driven (TED) team.". This is what you heard when you were selected to join a new engineering project back in early 2007 at BEA Systems Inc. The evolution of the Oracle Event Processing, Real-time Event Stream Processing Application, and Integration Platform began with a collection of top innovative engineers, individually selected because in the past they had worked their magic to create several of the major components for the industry-leading and award-winning WebLogic Server product.
With a dynamic, constantly motivating team director and a "wise old" software product manager who had been in the industry for 30 years but never tired of exploring new ideas and concepts, the group evolved to deliver this next generation "breakthrough" technology that would lead the company into new domains and...