Dave explored the boundary between what is classified as a batch and what is not and shows that it can be blurred for business or technical reasons.

Offline processing is a feature of almost all IT projects of any size. Often there is a natural business reason to group items for processin...

"Batch and offline processing is a fact of life for many of us, and by its nature it often comes with deadlines and windows for processing. Sometimes the only way to make that deadline is to take a large job and throw more hardware at it. Unfortunately things aren't always that easy, and this present...