Book Review: Event Processing in Action

Book Review: Event Processing in Action by Opher Etzion and Peter Niblett: Publisher- Manning: ISBN - 9781935182214

As the name suggests, book covers basics of event processing independent of language and underlying technology framework. Before starting this book, my impression about event architecture was colored by TIBCO’s technology stack. But after reading event has larger mind share from my side.

Book is divided into three parts covering almost all parts of event based architecture or in authors’ terms event processing. Opher manages a blog (http://epthinking.blogspot.com) which is very good source of information. He is also active member of Event Processing Technical Society (http://www.ep-ts.com) which is one of the most active site for Event Processing technology.

Book strives to develop a notation based language for Event based systems modeling but it requires more efforts and time to reach wide acceptance like UML or BPMN. Nevertheless, book is excellent in its content and approach.

I surely recommend this book to anyone who is involved in any form of event based architecture.



Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.

Further reading: Competing books are Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies by K. Mani Chandy and W. Roy Schulte http://www.amazon.com/Event-Processing-Designing-Systems-Companies/dp/0071633502 and Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise by Hugh Taylor, Angela Yochem, Les Phillips & Frank Martinez http://www.amazon.com/Event-Driven-Architecture-Enables-Real-Time-Enterprise/dp/0321322118

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Book’s web presence http://www.ep-ts.com/EventProcessingInAction
2. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Event-Processing-Action-Opher-Etzion/dp/1935182218
3. Flipkart: http://www.flipkart.com/event-processing-action-opher-etzion-book-1935182218
4. Hans Review: http://hansgilde.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/first-thoughts-on-event-processing-in-action
5. Author’s (Opher) Blog: http://epthinking.blogspot.com
6. Opher at Twitter: https://twitter.com/opheretzion
7. Publisher – Manning: http://www.manning.com/etzion
8. Event Processing Technical Society: http://www.ep-ts.com