April 16, 2012
The event-based programming model for the Cloud is called a personal event network (PEN). Personal because each person—entity, really—has their own. A network because there is an interconnected collection of programs interacting in the PEN via event-based protocols.
The basic unit of execution in the PEN is a rule. Rules connect events to actions. Applications in the PEN are collections of rules, or rulesets.
(Full Story: A Programming Model for Personal Clouds)
