Middleware 101

Abstract

Whether segregating a sophisticated software component into smaller services, transferring data between computers, or creating a general gateway for seamless communication, you can rely on middleware to achieve communication between different devices, applications, and software layers. Following the increasing agile movement, the tech industry has adopted the use of fast waterfall models to create stacks of layers for each structural need, including integration, communication, data, and security. Given this scope, emphasis must now be on endpoint connection and agile development. This means that middleware should not serve solely as an object-oriented solution to execute simple request-response commands. Middleware can incorporate pull-push events and streams via multiple gateways by combining microservices architectures to develop a holistic decentralized ecosystem.

Streamline Intelligent Crowd Monitoring with IoT Cloud Computing Middleware

“…Moreover, middleware, a term often associated with WSN solutions and architecture, describes decentralized solutions for a set of different but not independent systems. Initially coined in the 1980s, it signified a departure from monolithic applications, like early computer systems, which bundled multiple software entities into one large application [ 24 ]. Early e-commerce platforms, for instance, lacked scalability and agility due to their large architectural designs.…”

“…The term is closely associated with middleware, a concept introduced in the early 1980s to define a software pipeline—an operation, a process, or an application situated between the operating system and the end user [ 24 ]. This concept was developed to address the need to modernize legacy systems through the separation of concerns and the expansion of existing layers, facilitating generic communication among various applications and software components within distributed, interconnected networks.…”

Interoperability: Towards a Data-Driven Public Sector

“…Interoperability is in large part about technology and data, but it is not enough to set up middleware -an operation, process, or application functioning as a software "pipeline" between the operating system and the end user. 5 While middleware is necessary to make diverse digital systems, programs, and databases talk to each other, interoperable IT and data systems do not make for an interoperable public sector. Fundamentally, interoperability in the public sector is about enabling connections between ministries, departments, agencies, sectors, government levels, and countries through data, information systems, legal agreements, organizational processes, and shared values and customs.…”

The main categories of NewSQL databases and their features

“…Термін проміжне програмне забезпечення (middleware -менеджер ресурсів, що пропонує свої застосунки для ефективного обміну та розгортання цих ресурсів у мережі [32]), було введено на початку 1980-х років. Сьогодні завдяки проміжному програмному забезпеченню програміст має можливість реалізувати децентралізоване рішення замість того, щоб взаємодіяти і аналізувати різні компоненти [33]. Пропоновані рішення, що функціонують як прозорий шар для одновузлових систем, дозволяють застосункам та користувачам представляти базу даних як єдину централізовану одиницю, незважаючи на те, що остання розбита на кілька частин/сегментів і розподілена між кількома вузлами.…”