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Middleware 101: What to know now and for the future

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Alexandros Gazis,

Eleftheria KatsiriAuthors Info & Claims

Queue, Volume 20, Issue 1

Pages 10 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/3526211

Published: 15 March 2022 Publication History

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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.

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