Glossary of Terms
A set of terms in common or standardised usage by the tremor project and/or team
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artefact | A unit of configuration management in tremor. As and from tremor v0.4 |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph - A graph with no cycles and unidirectional edges |
| Pipeline | An artefact that describes a graph ( DAG ) of tremor operators |
| Operator | A vertex ( node ) in a tremor pipeline graph. Operators perform work in a tremor pipeline graph |
| Source, Onramp | An artefact that describes a connector of primarily inbound data available for pipelines to ingest |
| Sink, Offramp | An artefact that describes a connector of primarily outbound data produced by pipelines available for egress |
| Peer, Linked Transport | An artefact that describes a connector with both inbound and outbound data that can be routed through a pipeline conversationally |
| Link | A link is an edge or connection between operators in a pipeline or between pipelines and onramps/offramps |
| Binding | A specification of ( set of links ), describing one-or-many interconnections to/from pipelines |
| Mapping | A configuration of, ( set of bindings ), and set of key/value replacements that describes how to deploy pipelines and how to interconnect binding specifications and map to running instances of tremor artefacts |
| Repository | An in memory cache that tremor uses to store artefacts. Like a git repository for artefacts |
| Registry | An in memory cache that tremor uses to store running onramps, offramps and pipelines. Like the DNS registry for running code that can send, receive or process events |
| Publish | The act of publishing an artefact or deploying a running instance |
| Find | The act of finding an artefact or running instance by id |
| Bind | The act of deploying artefacts and making them runnable |
| Publish-Find-Bind | An Enterprise Integration Pattern common in Registry/Repository services for Application Server Platforms |
| Deploy | The act of publishing a tremor mapping, the side-effect of which MAY be the deployment of onramps, offramps and/or pipelines |
| Undeploy | The act of unpublishing a tremor mapping, the side-effect of which MAY be the undeployment of onramps, offramps and/or pipelines |
| Meta Variables | Global event metadata variables (prefixed with $ in tremor-script), accessible across pipeline nodes as well as offramps |
| WAL, Write-ahead Log | An in-memory or persistent data log used by the guaranteed delivery mechanism |
| CB, Circuit-breaker | A mechanism that can react to failure in sources and sinks in a robust and recoverable way |
| GD, Guaranteed delivery | A mechanism that guarantees that events that reach a pipeline are processed to completion. Depending on the source/sink this may extend end-to-end |
| End to end GD | A configuration of GD whereby the primary sources and sinks for a use case are guaranteed not to lose messages during normal processing conditions |
| LT, Linked transports | A mechanism that allows linking of source and sink nature into one ramp artefact |