Category Archives: Architecture

There are no such things as “Process” or “Exception”

Posted on September 6, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Dr. Bas van der Raadt, who was our presenter in January-2023, posted two articles at LinkedIn: Their titles may sound controversial but not for people who build decision-making systems in modern rules-based and event-driven environments.

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DecisionCAMP Monthly Session on Apr 19, 2023

Posted on April 7, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DecisionCAMP Monthly Session “RuleOps: Rule Engines and Kubernetes DevOps” presented by Luca Molteni from Red Hat will be held on Apr 19 at 12:00 pm EST (New York Time). Register for free here. Slides

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Business Rules and Ontology in an Event-Driven Architecture

Posted on January 24, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bas van der Raadt describes an event-driven business architecture that connects business activities (business rules) with business data (ontology) via business events (state changes of business data). model. He explains how everything comes together and how it helps business people … Continue reading →

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Event-Driven Microservices using Spring Boot and Kafka

Posted on October 22, 2022 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This Java Guide explains how to build a simple Event-Driven Microservices application using Spring Boot and Apache Kafka. You will learn how to use Apache Kafka as a message broker for Asynchronous communication between multiple microservices. Link

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A Building Blocks Approach

Posted on July 12, 2022 by decisionmanagementcommunity

A building blocks approach starts with the universe of possible solutions and determines the common fundamental elements that constitute such solutions. It then goes about standardizing these fundamental elements and commoditizing them. This enables an ecosystem of actors who have the … Continue reading →

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Platforms vs Frameworks

Posted on July 4, 2022 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Platforms are designed to be environments for apps. Not only will developers build the app on a particular platform, but the finished product will also run on that platform. In this sense, the hardware and software components of the platform work together … Continue reading →

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Decision Services Handling Large Payloads

Posted on April 21, 2022 by decisionmanagementcommunity
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“You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it”

Posted on June 1, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This A16Z article argues that SaaS companies should move back from the cloud to their own data centres once they scale. “Cloud is cheaper and better early on and more costly later in a company’s evolution… Make sure your system … Continue reading →

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From Basics To Deploying Scalable Web Applications

Posted on March 1, 2021 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This “JavaScript in Plain English” article provides an introductory roadmap for beginners who are looking to get into the development of modern applications running 24*7 web services. Link

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Intelligent Event Broker

Posted on September 29, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Jason English, a Principal Analyst from Intellyx, wrote a whitepaper called “Event Mesh: Event-Driven Architecture for the Real Time Enterprise”:  “We live and work in an event-driven world. Tightly coupled integrations, and conventional data transfer and processing techniques won’t be … Continue reading →

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