Re: LMAX

William Pietri <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.prevayler
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On 07/12/2011 01:46 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> Part of this sounds a lot like the Prevayler approach:
>
> http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
>
> They've taken it further, though, and there are some interesting new 
> wrinkles.
>
> Anybody know if the LMAX team was inspired by Prevayler at all?


I asked! The word comes back:

> No influence from Prevayler.  I think our design ideas pre-dated it.  
> I've been kicking around this design for over 5 years now in current 
> form and 10+ years for parts of it (e.g. central sequenced stream of 
> events).  The genesis is a security framework I designed in the mid 
> 90s.  People told me I was bonkers back then, however this system 
> delivered and worked really well :-)  It had a serious security review 
> by "Concept 5" who are ex-US military and they give it the thumbs up 
> and nicknamed it SPORB (Special Purpose Object Request Broker).

Sounds like a case of parallel invention. I really appreciate having 
another example like this in the wild, as I'm still getting told I'm 
bonkers with my non-database ideas.

William

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