The document discusses the challenges faced by Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) in managing diverse catalog systems across various healthcare entities. It outlines a proposed architecture for implementing a rule-based dispatch system and emphasizes the need for operational efficiency, data tracking, and flexibility in processing events. The strategy includes migration from legacy systems to a schema-less data store, employing ETL processes and a rules engine for event dispatching.

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Rule-based dispatching of events
to a serverless services armada
Daniel Buchholz
Dev Manager / Cloud Architect - Düsseldorf
@danbdo

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GHX is all about supplier chain processes in healthcare
Hospitals
Groups
Suppliers
Mfr‘s
Distributors

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What‘s was the problem, anyway?
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Individual catalog systems in all
(current) target markets
Each with different schema
All supposed to talk to each other
All doing a reasonably similar job
Operational efficiencies
Mappings / Conversions
Expandability
Catalog management

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Legacy systems
this
that
More
stuff
Squeezed
in...
WHOA!
add
modify
delete
Legacy catalog processing

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The Path Forward
consume
process
report
CSV Source type A
Source type BGS1
XML
JSON
Source type C
Suppliers
Groups
Hospitals
InboundConsumers/Processing
...
...
...
...
BI BI
...
...
...
...
...

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The Path Forward
consume
process
report
CSV Source type A
Source type BGS1
XML
JSON
Source type C
Suppliers
Groups
Hospitals
InboundConsumers/Processing
...
...
...
...
BI BI
...
...
...
...
...
ETL
Queueing / Mapping / Routing
Single Source Of Truth
events

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Consumers/Processing
Deep dive
consume
process
report
CSV Source type A
Source type BGS1
XML
JSON
Source type C
Suppliers
Groups
Hospitals
Inbound
...
...
...
...
BI BI
...
...
...
...
...
ETL
Queueing / Mapping / Routing
Single Source Of Truth
events

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„Each with different schema“
Catalog A
Att A: abc
Att B: def
Att C: ghi
Att D: jkl
Catalog B
Att P: 4711
Att B: blah
Att D: stuff
Catalog C
Att W: key1
Att X: key2
Att Y: foo
Att Z: bar
>> Schema-less data store

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„Each with different schema“
Catalog A
Att A: abc
Att B: def
Att C: ghi
Att D: jkl
Pkey: hash(A)
Catalog B
Att P: 4711
Att B: blah
Att D: stuff
Pkey: hash(P)
Catalog C
Att W: key1
Att X: key2
Att Y: foo
Att Z: bar
Pkey:hash(W/X)
>> Infer internal Pkey values
>> DynamoDB
>> Schema-less data store

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ETL
files de-dup delta
Item hash
Item
events
map
Item key
Schema
very specific very generic

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Consumers/Processing
Deep dive
consume
process
report
CSV Source type A
Source type BGS1
XML
JSON
Source type C
Suppliers
Groups
Hospitals
Inbound
...
...
...
...
BI BI
...
...
...
...
...
ETL
Queueing / Mapping / Routing
Single Source Of Truth
events

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Dispatching item events
catalog data

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Don‘t want to deploy full stack for each change
Dispatching item events
catalog data
Dispatcher
Function
„All doing a reasonably similar job“
>> Migrate tasks from legacy
>> Keep it open to changes
>> Static workflows wouldn‘t work
>> need rules engine

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Dispatcher Config
catalog data
Dispatcher
Function Dispatcher
Config Store
2 - Description
1 - Name
3 - Conditions
4 – Action(s)
success / failure

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Dispatcher Services
catalog data
Dispatcher
Function Dispatcher
Config Store
...Svc A Svc DSvc B Svc C
Search..
Engines
A Dispatcher – not a Broker >> fire & forgetHighly de-coupled
>> limit blast radius

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Dispatcher Endpoints
catalog data
Dispatcher
Function Dispatcher
Config Store
...Svc A Svc DSvc B Svc C
Search..
Engines

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Audits / Traces
v4 v3/v4 v2/v3 v1/v2 v0/v1
OPS teams need visibility >> full audit / full trace
DEV probably too
live audit
Causes & Effects
Svc A trace
Svc B trace
Consumer X
Consumer Y
Svc B trace
Svc C trace
Consumer Y
Svc A trace
BI A
BI B
Consumer X
Svc A trace
Svc B trace

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Core Services
catalog data
Dispatcher
Function
...Svc A Svc DSvc B Svc C
Search..
Engines
Audit log
Trace log
Core Services

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Versioning/Deployment options
80/20
Svc A Svc D Svc E
Svc E2Svc A2
In your face
Svc D2
Traffic shifting Parallel / Audit

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So...
This is our architecture
Happy to hear feedback