Architecture Discussion 1

Notes from the meeting

Whiteboard's snapshot:

List of utility services:

• Project Management: groups assets (files) and their users into more manageable components (projects)
• Store
• Users Management
• Auth (authorisation + authentication)

List of core services from the process mining domain:

• Discoverer
• Simulator
• Optimizer

PIX main application high-level components:

• UI app: one UI app for all the services
• Back-end: serves the UI app
• [optional] A common library of React UI components

Unresolved questions

• Potentially big files might be transferred via HTTP several times unnecessarily. It would be good to avoid this (using a disk volume?)
• If we delay Users Management implementation, how we can ensure that we can integrate it later?

Tools and technologies to consider

Operations

• Ansible for setting up and configuring machines. As an example, Waiting Time Backend uses it for automated deployment: deploy.yaml, hosts.yaml, executed by the GitHub Actions' deployment job

Development

• For Python, Black code formatter to unify our formatting throughout projects
• gRPC
• OpenAPI Generator