Month: July 2018

Message based IoT applications Many applications in the IoT are not transactional by nature and do not adopt a request-response communication pattern, i.e. they do not require returning an immediate response to the emitter of the request (a device or a client application). Rather, these applications imply some kind of batch or long-running processing that would block the caller for an unacceptable amount of time. For example, devices that send data to the back-end that in turn injects it into a decision making or analytics process, should not have to wait for the process to complete. In that situation,...