Ok so I have been offline for a while now, what with starting a new financial contract in London and not having any broadband access for a while. I have been working on something, honest!
Since the last post I have been reflecting on the pipeline design and it had a distinct object orientated feel to it that I wasnt happy with, so I have amended the structure of the code and come up with the following which simplifies in some areas and expands in others…
[Read More]I feel I need to backtrack slightly from the previous post, having worked with pipelines for quite some time I have the advantage of knowing all of the details that may be alluded to in these articles without being effected by any omissions I may make, obviously you guys aren’t in that position, so I’m going to try and rectify that a bit now. If you have any queries then please leave a comment and I will try to address them in further articles. Pipelines are a simple concept but in practice there can be some caveats and things to bear in mind, sometime the whole mindset of development team can be against them unless they can see the bigger picture…
[Read More]First up, what’s a pipeline? Well according to Wikipedia:
A pipeline is a set of data processing elements connected in series, so that the output of one element is the input of the next one. The elements of a pipeline are often executed in parallel or in time-sliced fashion; in that case, some amount of buffer storage is often inserted between elements.
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