Parleys.com: Formula One Telemetry with Java

When somebody says "challenging environment", what do you think of? Well, the Formula One environment is really one of these challenging environments. Behind those fast streaking cars there is a complex world made of real-time systems collecting and distributing high-speed data feeds to pieces of software and team engineers that take decisions by the second. This does not occur in the stable, quiet, controlled-atmosphere room in the computing center of a bank, but in a narrow, noisy, hot garage, with extremely busy people moving among flying network and power cables. So it is not unlikely to have the network erroneously disconnected, or a switch that goes unexpectedly off, or a troubled computer that stops working. Nevertheless, real-time data must be still collected and delivered: stop the flow for more than a few seconds and engineers could miss that signal glitch that is warning about an engine failure ? in a word, the race is lost. Last but not least, the whole garage is unpacked and set up every week in a different location of the world. Now you get where the challenge is.