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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta by jon-wood on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:46PM (#19760054)
The general concept of a blackboard is basically describing pubsub systems like Kafka - you throw a bunch of data into a queue, and anything that’s interested can grab that information, and potentially then publish further information built on top of it.
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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta by riffraff on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:07PM (#19760279)
I may not remember correctly but I think blackboards were tuplespaces, which have some differences with plain pubsub, though they can both be used to solve some of the same problems.
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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta by dragonwriter on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:15PM (#19760362)
Blackboards are very different from pubsub/queues. They are more like shared DB integration.
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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta by p_l on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:04PM (#19766474)
An example of a blackboard system in the wild that many would be exposed to today is kubernetes
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