aemitted

Aemitted is a term encountered in some discussions of event-driven systems to describe events that have been produced by an emitter in an asynchronous fashion. The term is not part of a formal specification and has no single authoritative definition; it is used primarily in niche forums, blog posts, and design discussions.

Origin and usage: Aemitted appears to be a portmanteau of asynchronous and emitted. It is used to contrast “aemitted” events with synchronous emissions or with events that are emitted and handled within the same call frame. Because there is no standard spelling, different writers may use “aemitted,” “Aemitted,” or simply describe events as asynchronously emitted.

Characteristics: An aemitted event is typically dispatched by an emitter without blocking the caller. Delivery may be buffered by an event loop, queue, or message broker, and consumers may receive events in an order determined by the transport. Backpressure and retry semantics are common concerns. In many frameworks, the concept aligns with futures, promises, observables, or reactive streams.

Usage context: Aemitted events are central to asynchronous logging, IO completion, user interface events, and network messages. They enable decoupled architectures but require careful handling of delivery guarantees and error management, as timing can be nondeterministic and delivery may be subject to failure or reordering.

See also: emitted, asynchronous I/O, event-driven architecture, reactive programming, message broker.