Category Archives: Architecture

Smart Factory: Optimize Factory Operations

Posted on April 21, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Traditionally, Operational Technology (OT) data has been on-premises, managed using process manufacturing systems, and analyzed with monitoring, trending, and visualization tools. This approach was designed for a very important purpose – real-time process control. However, it has also created challenges, … Continue reading →

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Who will win? Spring Boot or Quarkus

Posted on January 12, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

DZone published the article “Microservices: Quarkus vs. Spring Boot“: “Nowadays, with the Microservice Architecture, perhaps it does not make sense anymore, nor any advantage, build something multi-platform (interpreted) for something that will always run on the same place and platform (the Docker Container — … Continue reading →

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Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning

Posted on November 3, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

ThoughtWorks put out an article about Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning: “Machine Learning applications are becoming popular in our industry, however the process for developing, deploying, and continuously improving them is more complex compared to more traditional software, such as … Continue reading →

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One Microjourney™ at a time

Posted on September 11, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Alan Trefler, CEO at Pegasystems, just introduced “The new way of operating: One microjourney™ at a time“: What we’re really talking about are microjourneys – an optimized outcome for each customer touchpoint that, for example, changes the customer experience, builds a relationship, … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Core

Posted on September 6, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Read Neil Ward-Dutton’s article “IDC: The most important decision you’ll make in the next decade“: Have you noticed operational decision services inside the Intelligent Core? They are the ones who provide the “capability to drive intelligent behaviour and actions, linking … Continue reading →

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How Do Your Decision Microservices Communicate?

Posted on August 29, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

After you deploy your business decision models as microservices, you need to organize your inter-service communication.  Usually, your decision microservices are stateless. But what if they need to maintain some state? What if they updated values and those values got … Continue reading →

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Business Decision Models are moving to Serverless World

Posted on August 12, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In the new cloud-based world, the decision-making applications have new requirements to operational decision services. The traditional monolithic services are being replaced by microservices that requires high availability, security, and super-fast performance. The customers are not satisfied anymore with a relatively … Continue reading →

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From “Monolithic” to “Microservices”

Posted on June 12, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Traditionally web applications wrapped up business logic, data retrieval, validation, persistence, security and UI in a single bundle deployed on a web server such as Tomcat. This approach continues to work well but nowadays it’s called “monolithic” and many web … Continue reading →

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Decision Microservices

Posted on May 10, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Nowadays microservices quickly become a highly popular architectural approach showing a lot of benefits over the legacy style of monolithic single applications. The latest DMN specifies Decision Services and more and more people deploy their decision projects as Decision Microservices. … Continue reading →

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State-Based Evaluation of Rules

Posted on May 9, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross: “In state-based evaluation of rules, current states of affairs are captured and monitored in real-time by a ‘watcher’ external to processes. This ‘watcher’ automatically intervenes whenever a violation of a rule occurs. The watcher resets the activity – i.e., … Continue reading →

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