The registration information for a new facility and the actual stock report from an existing facility. There are two types of information that the system will need to know about. We don’t worry about what the implementation at the facility will be, our job is to define the document structures, make REST endpoints available to accept those documents and handle the downstream data flow.
#Define aether software#
Software at each facility will communicate to this reporting system by making REST calls. In this exercise, we will setup a system for health facilities to report their current stock level of vaccines. You should already be set up, logged in and looking at a mostly empty Aether//Pipelines screen from the previous step Within a pipeline, we define one or more data contracts that specify the format of the transformed data, along with rules that define how the input data is transformed to comply with those contracts. A pipeline consists of a path that data takes through Aether, and the transformations that it goes through along the way. In Aether speak, we call this process a pipeline. The entities (document/schema bundles) are passed along to a queuing mechanism and made available to downstream data consumers. The schema describes the structure of the data represented by the entity. The input data is combined with known schemas and mapping functions resulting in the extraction of one or more entity objects.Įntities are standalone data documents that each contain a metadata “contract” or schema. Structured data is “pushed” to Aether via client API. Its spirit lives on in dark energy, a modern manifestation of this most ancient idea.Aether is a platform for building solutions that curate and exchange live information. Subsequently, modern theories of subatomic physics and Einstein's space-time continuum have relegated the aether to the domains of mysticism and pseudoscience. Their failure was taken as proof the aether had never existed. The Luminifeous Aether was proposed to answer that need.įor the most part, the aether vanished after the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, which unsuccessfully sought to record "aether wind" as a measurable effect of the Earth moving through the ether. Maxwell's "undulations" still needed a medium through which to travel - emptiness was not an option. Following James Clerk Maxwell's unification of electricity and magnetism, visible light was revealed to be another wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. The aether was still very much alive in the 19th century. He wondered if this aether wasn't a living force - essentially, spirit - though he knew he could never prove this to be the case. Newton's version of the aether - a strong, subtle and elastic medium - was responsible for what we now recognise as gravity and electromagnetism, as well as our own physical movements and sensations. Many 18th-century astronomers would invoke the aether to account for the variations and discrepancies in the motions of celestial bodies, or the way light travelled through space. Later, the word encompassed a number of related ideas about the subtle matter keeping the stars and planets in place.
Vortices in this aether, he felt, were responsible for the accumulation of the particles that formed matter and shaped solid objects from pebbles to planets.
By the middle of the 17th century, René Descartes was using the word to describe the medium of space.