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Middleware’s message : the financial technics of codata

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Castelle, Michael (2021) Middleware’s message : the financial technics of codata. Philosophy & Technology, 34 . pp. 33-55. doi:10.1007/s13347-019-00379-2 ISSN 2210-5433.

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Abstract

In this paper, I will argue for the relevance of certain distinctive features of messaging systems, namely those in which data (a) can be sent and received asynchronously, (b) can be sent to multiple simultaneous recipients and (c) is received as a “potentially infinite” flow of unpredictable events. I will describe the social technology of the stock ticker, a telegraphic device introduced at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1860s, with reference to early twentieth century philosophers of synchronous experience (Bergson), simultaneous sign interpretations (Mead and Peirce), and flows of discrete events (Bachelard). Then, I will show how the ticker’s data flows developed into the 1990s-era technologies of message queues and message brokers, which distinguished themselves through their asynchronous implementation of ticker-like message feeds sent between otherwise incompatible computers and terminals. These latter systems’ characteristic “publish/subscribe” communication pattern was one in which conceptually centralized (if logically distributed) flows of messages would be “published,” and for which “subscribers” would be spontaneously notified when events of interest occurred. This paradigm—common to the so-called “message-oriented middleware” systems of the late 1990s—would re-emerge in different asynchronous distributed system contexts over the following decades, from “push media” to Twitter to the Internet of Things.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Information retrieval -- Equipment and supplies -- History, Autonomous distributed systems , Middleware , Computer software -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Philosophy & Technology
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
ISSN: 2210-5433
Official Date: March 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2021Published
9 December 2019Available
9 October 2019Accepted
Volume: 34
Page Range: pp. 33-55
DOI: 10.1007/s13347-019-00379-2
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 7 January 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access: 15 January 2020

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