In this lesson, you will learn the main concepts behind event-driven programming, which, after object-oriented programming, is another fundamental stepping stone in understanding modern embedded ...

“Asynchrony” is a scary word. It means taking events as they come, managing somehow to avoid being overtaken by them. Event-driven asynchrony is the foundation of serverless computing, which, as a ...

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In today’s dynamic business environment, traditional applications pose significant challenges; hampering agility, scalability, and efficiency — which are all key attributes that organizations strive ...

The interest in state machines started in the 1950s when George Moore and Edward Mealy published seminal papers on formal methods of designing digital circuits, which generate outputs based on the ...

To address these unpredictable environments, the current trend in systems architecture is service-oriented design and event-driven programming. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) presents a dynamic ...

Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...