2023 Project Roadmap

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This post describes Substation's 2023 project roadmap! However, please keep in mind that Substation is not a full-time job for the project maintainers and we cannot commit to meeting deadlines for any proposed items on the roadmap. Any feature request not represented on the roadmap can be submitted as an issue.

• Processors as request-reply microservices / remote procedure calls (RPC)
  • AWS Lambda Synchronous Invocation
  • gRPC Unary RPC
• Caching
  • Support for local and remote caches
  • Cache processor (get and set items in a cache)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support
  • Pub/Sub
  • Cloud Storage
• Improved error handling
  • Support for failure destinations and automated recovery (v1.0)
  • Config validation and automated rollback in AWS AppConfig
• Idempotent producers / sinks (blocked by caching) (v1.0)

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Caching is available starting in v0.8.1 and addressed via the new Key-Value Store functionality described here: https://substation.readme.io/docs/key-value-stores.

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Config validation is available starting in v0.9.0 and the documentation for it is here: https://substation.readme.io/docs/validator-aws-lambda. We've also taken automated rollback off of the roadmap due to config validation addressing most of its use cases.

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Microservices (synchronous and asynchronous) are supported in the upcoming v1.0 release, but gRPC was removed. If requested, then it can be reintroduced.

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Failure destinations and automated recovery are available to use for v1.0, but are not yet part of a release.

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GCP isn't a focus for the @brexhq/substation project team, but we are open to external contributions.

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Idempotent transforms are available to use for v1.0, but are not yet part of a release.