📃Key Concepts
Modularity
Defined Module Boundaries: The framework establishes precise demarcations between the control and data planes. These boundaries can be statically articulated, enabling enhanced analyzability and seamless post-processing via external offline analysis tools.
Adaptive Runtime Service Composition: In-process modules are architected to support runtime composability, eliminating the reliance on static compilation. This enables a highly dynamic configuration of services tailored to evolving requirements.
Modular Integration: For complex module interdependencies, integration is streamlined through declarative definitions. This approach eliminates the need to modify existing module code or create additional intermediary "glue" code, ensuring a non-intrusive and scalable development process.
Distributed Modular Decoupling: The design paradigm inherently decouples module dependencies, empowering independent development by distributed teams. This decoupling also facilitates hot-swapping and dynamic replacement of modules without impacting the integrity of the larger system.
Versatile Interface Communication Mechanisms: The framework accommodates dual interface paradigms: one enforcing strict parameter consistency and another leveraging platform-driven parameter reconciliation for mismatched interfaces. This dual-mode communication fosters autonomy in module development and accelerates independent deployment cycles.
Orchestration
Directed Cyclic Graph (DCG) Topologies: Enables the creation of intricate graph-based module compositions, supporting 1-to-n, n-to-1, and n-to-m interaction patterns across both control and data planes.
Inter-Process and Thread-Level Orchestration: Facilitates seamless coordination of module instances across processes and threads, enabling the construction of comprehensive service workflows.
Dynamic Orchestration Configuration: Supports both runtime-configurable orchestration and pre-execution static configuration, enabling flexible and adaptive service coordination.
Flexible Configuration Settings
Context-Aware Hierarchical Configuration: Module instances support context-sensitive configuration layers, enabling tailored adaptability across hierarchical levels.
Adaptive and Autonomous Configuration Management: Configurations can be pre-trained for static use, dynamically fine-tuned during runtime, or propagated as distributed updates for continuous optimization.
Diverse Releasing Capabilities
Dual-Mode Module Distribution: The framework supports the concurrent release of modules in both binary and source code formats, enabling seamless coexistence and selection based on deployment needs or operational preferences.
Cloud-Native Marketplace Integration: Modules, regardless of their distribution format, can be seamlessly published to a cloud-based marketplace. This facilitates streamlined discovery, acquisition, and integration into diverse project ecosystems, promoting rapid deployment and modular scalability.
Multiple Instances Capability
Multi-Instance Platform Support: Enables multiple platform instances within a single process by eliminating global variable dependencies.
Module-Level Instance Independence: Modules are designed without global state reliance, allowing concurrent execution of multiple instances without conflict.
Concurrent Pipeline Orchestration: Supports parallel or sequential execution of multiple orchestrated pipelines within the same process.
Diverse Distribution Capability
Adaptive Distribution Mechanisms: Enables dynamic allocation of modules across processes and threads, optimizing for high availability, concurrency, and seamless hot updates.
Abstracted Distribution Configuration: Decouples distribution logic from module code and build pipelines, streamlining deployment and operational scalability.
Flexibility in Input/Output Support
Integrated Control and Data Planes: The framework facilitates seamless command execution and real-time transmission of multimedia and raw data streams (audio, video, etc.) between modules.
Cross-Process and Cross-Thread I/O Management: Modules are equipped to handle concurrent input/output operations across both process and thread boundaries.
RPC-Based Interaction Model: External I/O operations are underpinned by RPC paradigms, enabling efficient module communication and integration across distributed processes.
Multi-Module Triggering Mechanism: A single module action can initiate parallel workflows in downstream modules, with results aggregated and returned to the origin.
Static Interface Declarations: Interfaces are declaratively defined, allowing offline validation and error detection via static analysis tools.
Streamlined I/O Interface Development: Auto-generated function call interfaces reduce complexity and expedite module development.
Support for Complex Data Types: The framework accommodates non-serializable data transmission, with tools automatically identifying and managing such scenarios.
Abstracted IPC Logic: Cross-process communication is fully abstracted, providing a transparent and simplified interaction layer for developers.
Bidirectional Control Plane Operations: Supports synchronous and asynchronous control flows, enabling versatile command and response interactions.
Thread-Constrained Synchronous Execution: Allows tightly coupled synchronous communication between modules operating within the same thread.
Freedom in Developing Modules
Unrestricted Third-Party Integration: Modules can incorporate third-party libraries without limitations to achieve specific functionalities.
Native OS Feature Access: Developers have full control to create and manage native threads within modules, ensuring maximum flexibility.
Programming Language Support
Support for Multiple Programming Languages: The framework supports modules written in various languages (e.g., C/C++, Go, Java, Python), enabling diverse development environments.
Polyglot Module Interoperability: Enables seamless execution of modules implemented in diverse programming languages within a shared process environment.
Standardized Cross-Language Interfaces: Ensures uniform module interaction and behavior consistency, regardless of the implementation language.
Cross-Language Data Schema Harmonization: Provides a unified data type system, facilitating reliable and consistent data exchange across heterogeneous programming languages.
Rich External Interaction Capabilities
Backend-Driven UI Component Provisioning: The architecture enables backend services to dynamically supply UI components for frontend integration.
RESTful API Support: Backend modules can expose RESTful endpoints to facilitate client communication and interaction.
Seamless Legacy System Integration: The framework integrates with existing services in a non-intrusive manner, eliminating the need for extensive refactoring or redevelopment.
Thread-Safe Operational Flexibility: Operates as a standalone process or within a single-threaded context of an existing service, ensuring compatibility with pre-existing business logic.
Testing Friendly
Comprehensive Testing Framework: Supports a wide range of testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, modular validation, and black-box testing, to ensure robust system evaluation.
Isolated Module Validation: Modules are designed for independent testing, enabling granular verification and enhanced test coverage.
Offline Processing Capability
Integrated Package Management System: Provides a command-line interface (CLI) and package management utilities for efficient handling of modules and their configurations.
Graphical Orchestration Interface: Offers GUI-based tools for offline module orchestration and development, streamlining workflow and enhancing productivity.
Interactive Visual Debugging Framework: Includes support for visualization tools that enable real-time inspection and analysis of module interactions and dependencies.
Robustness
Scalable Pipeline Orchestration: The platform ensures high concurrency, supporting a minimum of 100 orchestrated pipeline instances executing simultaneously within a single process.
Massive RESTful Interface Scalability: Capable of handling over 20,000 concurrent RESTful client connections within a single process, optimizing resource utilization.
Robust Non-RESTful Interface Handling: Designed to support more than 1,000 concurrent non-RESTful client connections within a single process, ensuring reliable and efficient communication.
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