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The journal Dr. Dobb’s has just published an introductory article on DDS. If you’re new to DDS or to real-time communications in general, take a look. It’s a quick read, and it does a good job of summarizing the rich functionality of DDS and the impressive performance relative to other technologies.

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The Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard is now five years old and has enjoyed very rapid adoption. RTI alone has about 400 commercial customers (a sampling of which are listed here) and is supporting nearly 100 other research projects.
With the maturity and broad adoption of DDS, we are seeing a couple [...]

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DDS is popular, and addresses a number of important use cases that are not addressed by other specifications, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. The DDS community — including both customers and vendors — is active within the OMG to address additional areas in need of standardization. I thought I’d share one of those areas [...]

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If you’re an old hand at messaging, but new to data distribution, the phrase “data-centric design” may sound like just a new way of describing the same old architectures. But data-centric and message-centric thinking differ in subtle-yet-important ways. Understanding those differences will help you pick the right tool for each job.

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Supreet had a great post recently about the importance of giving your data model significant design attention, just as you do your system’s performance, determinism, and functionality. (Indeed, you can hardly separate these things.) I’d like to take that theme a bit further, and talk about some of the things RTI Data Distribution Service can [...]

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RTI Message Service isn’t just the fastest JMS solution out there; it’s also the easiest to use.

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