Tag Archives: inter-process communication

BA Webinar Series 06: What BAs Should Know About Software

Today I gave this webinar for the Tampa IIBA Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 4

One more piece of context must be added to the discussion I’ve written up here, here, and here, and that is the place of these operations in the 7-layer OSI communications model. The image above is copied from and linked … Continue reading

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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 3

Now that we’ve described how to sense error states and something about how to record logging information on systems running multiple processes, we’ll go into some deeper aspects of these activities. We’ll first discuss storing information so errors can be … Continue reading

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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 2

Continuing yesterday’s discussion of monitoring and logging, I wanted to work through a few specific cases and try to illustrate how things can be sensed in an organized way, and especially how errors of various types can be detected. To … Continue reading

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Monitoring System Health and Availability, and Logging: Part 1

Ongoing Monitoring, or, What’s Happening Now? Any system with multiple processes or machines linked by communication channels must address real-time and communication issues. One of the important issues in managing such a system is monitoring it to ensure all of … Continue reading

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Designing and Documenting Inter-Process Communication Links

I’ve touched on the subject of inter-process communication previously here and here, but now that I’m charged with doing a lot of this formally I wanted to discuss the process in more detail. I’m sharing this in outline form to … Continue reading

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Interface Analysis

I’m pursuing yet another certification, this time the IIBA‘s CBAP, for Certified Business Analysis Professional. I chose a 35-hour training course run as a series of interactive webinars over seven successive weekend days and during the second session this past … Continue reading

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“What is a Mutex?”

This was the first question I was asked in an interview sometime around 2006. I didn’t know the answer, which is exceptionally annoying because I’d been using them for years without knowing what they were called. This is a danger … Continue reading

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Methods of Inter-Process Communication I’ve Employed

A while ago someone asked me how I’d go about making two processes communicate. My answer was to figure out what data needed to be communicated, what communication type was to be used, what protocol was to be used, and … Continue reading

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