Colin Clark

“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 hottest-the most tweeted URL over a given time frame.  Once we deploy TwitURL in the cloud, we’ll use this app to see what’s going on in there.  Here’s a picture of the heat map: ... (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)

Event Processing in the Cloud – DataSift is a Big Proof Point

In the past year or so, I’ve heard from many skeptics – people who didn’t believe that Event Processing could be successfully deployed in the cloud.  Granted, most of these folks represented firms actively engaged in providing the High Frequency Trading (Algo Trading) industry with tools.  And in that arena, cloud deployment probably doesn’t make sense.  Yet. Close to Home Though Ask people in Capital Markets about Twitter and the most common response you’ll get is, “What do people use it for?”  This is because most of the people in Capital Markets can’t use things like Twitter, i... (more)

My Top Five Cloud Predictions for 2011: 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 predic... (more)

What Exactly is Complex Event Processing Today?

As much as I disagree with much of what Curt Monash writes, he did actually ask a good question recently in his post, “Renaming CEP… or not” Without getting into a rehash of the hash over there, let’s look at things a bit differently.  Let’s talk about what CEP is not. I left trading to join a firm called NEON.  I was an early investor in this company, my mentor had started the firm, and to me it looked like the cat’s meow.  It was a great time, a lot of people made a ton of money, and I was introduced into the world of software via Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).  Usin... (more)