Inventory information distribution systems, devices and methods

A method of distributing inventory information, comprising:

• by a control circuit of an inventory information distribution system:
• receiving, over time, product inventory update information messages received over a distributed communication network without requesting the product inventory update information messages, wherein each of the product inventory update information messages is received from one of multiple different product inventory systems of multiple different product inventory storage facilities based on a detected change in an inventory corresponding to any one of numerous products available through a respective one of the product inventory storage facilities;
• communicating at least a portion of each of the product inventory update information messages to a central electronic data storage buffer;
• maintaining at least the portion of each of the product inventory update information messages in the central electronic data storage buffer for a respective buffer retention window of time;
• automatically controlling the central electronic data storage buffer and causing, in response to buffering, a streaming of each of the product inventory update information messages from the central electronic data storage buffer over the distributed communication network to each of multiple different application services without requests from the multiple different application services, wherein each of the multiple application services comprises multiple servers communicatively coupled with the distributed communication network;
• partitioning each of the multiple application services as a function of processing capabilities of the respective multiple servers of the respective application service and according to an associated category of different categories, wherein each server, of the multiple servers. corresponds to a different partition and is associated with one of the different categories;
• and
• wherein each application service directs the product inventory update information messages to the different partitioned servers of the multiple application services according to the associated category of the different categories with which each of the inventory update information messages corresponds.

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processing resource to:

• receive, over time, product inventory update information messages received over a distributed communication network without requesting the product inventory update information messages, wherein each of the product inventory update information messages is received from one of multiple different product inventory systems of multiple different product inventory storage facilities based on a detected change in an inventory corresponding to any one of numerous products available through a respective one of the product inventory storage facilities;
• communicate at least a portion of each of the product inventory update information messages to a central electronic data storage buffer;
• maintain at least the portion of each of the product inventory update information messages in the central electronic data storage buffer for a respective buffer retention window of time;
• automatically control the central electronic data storage buffer and cause, in response to buffering, a streaming of each of the product inventory update information messages from the central electronic data storage buffer over the distributed communication network to each of multiple different application services without requests from the multiple different application services, wherein each of the multiple application services comprises multiple servers communicatively coupled with the distributed communication network;
• and
• partition each of the multiple application services as a function of processing capabilities of the respective multiple servers of the respective application service and according to an associated category of different categories, wherein each server, of the multiple servers, corresponds to a different partition and is associated with one of the different categories;
• wherein each application service directs the product inventory update information messages to the different partitioned servers of the multiple application services according to the associated category of the different categories with which each of the inventory update information messages corresponds.