Envoy™ Virtual Zone Manager
Envoy is a multi-faced SIF agent that solves a number of challenges encountered by larger organizations implementing a SIF architecture to be shared by a large number of schools and/or local authorities. These challenges include: Accessing consolidated data from multiple schools as if it came from a single source with records from many school-level zones matched […]
Scalable Message Broker — A Contradiction in Terms?
If you read about the theoretical foundations behind the different methods to interconnect applications, you will no doubt hear challenges to a message broker's ability to scale (especially coming from Enterprise Service Bus vendors). This is most likely because they use examples of non-scalable brokers to prove their point. We could do that too with almost any technology - take a faulty implementation, make the assumption that its design is the only possible way to implement the technology and then generalize until as much as necessary to "prove" that the principle (theory) is flawed, but we won't. Instead, we will consider the claim itself ("brokers are not scalable") in more detail and see why its foundation is not sturdy.(Click article title to read more)
Large-Scale Environments?
On our home page, we claim that our products scale from small to large implementations. Handling a small implementation is easy to imagine, but how large an implementation can our software support?
Some of our smaller examples include single school implementations. Larger examples in education include regional implementations in the UK with 2.7 to 3.2 million learners each, US states with millions of students and nationwide implementations with over 8 million students in attendance...
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Some of our smaller examples include single school implementations. Larger examples in education include regional implementations in the UK with 2.7 to 3.2 million learners each, US states with millions of students and nationwide implementations with over 8 million students in attendance...
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