In my opinion, the application-centric paradigm is no longer fully up to the task of implementing the world of things, the increasingly pervasive collection of connected, intelligent devices communicating in near-real-time that constitutes our...

In Part 1, I was talking about using the public cloud, with appropriate business-level SLAs, for business-critical processing. As usual, however, the devil will be in the detail and cloud services suppliers like Amazon are unlikely to want to offer...