Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days

Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by naasking on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:10PM (#23052592)

> Kind of how you'd say you have a dashboard for your business to see metrics in real time (as opposed to some kind of daily report).

I think calling it a "streaming" or "live streaming" interface is a better descriptor than "real-time".

> I think that usage of real time is very common outside of a pure engineering sense

Maybe, but we're talking about the software engineering world here aren't we? I think we should seek to be precise with our terminology and try to avoid unnecessary ambiguity.

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Re:Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3... by mholt on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:18PM (#23053266)

I agree with you and have upvoted your comments, however, I'll also note that we distinguish between different disciplines in software engineering. "Real-time" has a very spceific definition in embedded systems and OSes, but this is clearly high-level application more tied to business logic than, say, rocket control systems.

I think both uses of the term are acceptable in their different contexts. (But yes I also agree "streaming" is a very good term.)

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