Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of two new Event Portal features:
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The AI Design Assistant
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The Application Deployment/Promotion Request/Approval Workflow
AI Design Assistant
Following successful experimental trials and positive customer feedback, the AI Design Assistant is now available to all customers, including trial accounts.
The AI Design Assistant has been enhanced and productized to deliver an improved day-1 experience for new users of Event Portal. This AI-powered tool helps users quickly learn about Event Portal capabilities, event-driven architecture (EDA) design principles, and some best practices.
Provided with a company name and description, the AI Design Assistant can create a sample of a full EDA containing application domains, applications, events with topic addresses, and payload schemas. You stay in control and review all resources suggested by the AI model and can update them as needed. The AI Design Assistant can also configure your operational event brokers so that the applications it designs can actually connect to the broker in the runtime and publish and subscribe to the events per the EDA design.
You can watch this how-to video to see an example of the AI Design Assistant at work.
You can find more information about the AI Design Assistant in the Solace documentation.
Application Deployment and Promotion Request/Approval Workflow
This new governance feature for Event Portal provides enhanced oversight and control over configuration changes deployed to event brokers.
Event Portal now includes a request/approval workflow for deploying and promoting application versions to event brokers in operational environments. This feature gives organizations the governance controls they need while maintaining the efficiency benefits of self-service event data access.
Application development teams can now request configuration changes for event brokers in higher environments where they don’t have access to make changes without required approvals, while designated approvers maintain oversight before changes are applied to shared event broker resources. This controlled deployment process is particularly valuable to ensure configuration changes are reviewed before they are deployed to event brokers. Organizations can apply different governance policies across development, staging, UAT, and production environments based on their specific requirements. Audit trails track who requested changes and who approved them for compliance and operational visibility.
The new workflow streamlines collaboration between application development teams and middleware/integration teams, enabling them to work more efficiently with a clear request and approval process. This reduces bottlenecks in event broker configuration while maintaining necessary controls, allowing development teams to retain autonomy in their own environments while following approval processes for shared resources.
You can watch this how-to video to see an example of the feature at work.
You can find more information about the Application Deployment/Promotion Request/Approval Workflow feature in the Solace documentation.
Let me know if you have any question or comment.