Adeptia Connect (AC) is an enterprise-class application that is designed for reliable, scalable, and secure operations in mission-critical use cases. Large organizations such as many Fortune 500 companies rely on Adeptia Connect to handle important data exchanges with external customers and partners as well as within internal systems and applications.
Adeptia Connect version 4.0 is a cloud-native application with microservice architecture. It uses Docker to containerize different microservices and uses Kubernetes for container orchestration and management. The application provides the following advantages:
It can run as a cloud-native application.
High scalability. Different microservices can be scaled as per need.
High availability.
Automated deployment and upgrade through CD pipeline.
Centralized monitoring and logging.
The Application Architecture diagram for Adeptia Connect is shown below.
Key components
Component
Description
API Gateway
Microservice for providing custom API to each client to connect with the requested Microservice.
Invokes multiple Microservices and aggregates the results.
Portal
Microservice for serving GUI to configure entities and view logs.
Web Runner
Microservice for serving UI data.
Events
Microservice for scheduling of events
Runtime
Microservice for Process Flow execution
Webservices
Microservice for web service provider execution.
RabbitMQ
For facilitating asynchronous inter-service communication.
Back pressure handling: queueing jobs, routing to dedicated pods, Auto scale based on queue size.
Listener
Microservice for the execution of listeners (Only one instance/Pod will run at a time)
AI Map
Microservice for AI based auto mapping.
PV/PVC
Repository for persistent storage of run-time temporary files and archiving.
Database
Backend Database – Stores all metadata related to users, transactions, configurations, partners.
Log Database – Stores all run time execution details, log information, and audit trails.
External and inter-service communication
External and internal communication in Adeptia Connect happens in the following manner.
Synchronous external communication happens using REST protocol over https.
Synchronous inter-service communication happens using REST protocol over https.
Asynchronous inter-service communication happens using RabbitMQ Message broker.