Stairway to StreamInsight

Microsoft StreamInsight™ is designed to assist in developing Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications in .NET This is appropriate for stream sources tsuch as those in manufacturing applications or financial trading applications. StreamInsight provides the means to monitor, manage, and mine several sources simultaneously for conditions,trends, exceptions, opportunities, and defects almost instantly. It is ideal for performing low-latency analytics on the events and triggering response actions, and for mining historical data to continuously refine and improve definitions of alerting conditions. Johan provides a simple explanation of the system in a series of practical articles.

• What is StreamInsight and why does it matter?

  An introduction to SQL Server StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing with a focus on Business Intelligence.

• Getting started with StreamInsight

  A quick-start to SQL Server StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing with a step-by-step example on stock quotes.

• Pulling real-time data from Twitter using StreamInsight

  An example of building a StreamInsight input adapter for retrieving Twitter data in real-time.