Architecture as Code - Working Group Meeting - Tuesday 26 March 2024

[rocketstack-matt]

Date

Tuesday 26 Mar 2024 - 11:00 EST / 15:00 UK

Untracked attendees

Name	Firm	Comment

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Agenda

• Convene, roll call, welcome new people (@dc-ms) (5mins)
• Approve previous meeting minutes (@dc-ms) (1min)
• Recap of On-Site Accelerator (@willosborne) (5min)
• Updates on recent developments
  • Validator Validator (@willosborne) (5min)
  • Translator: C4 (@Budlee) / k8s (@matthewgardner) (5min)
  • Visualizer (@aidanm3341) (5min)
• Proposed CLI (@grahampacker-ms / @willosborne) (5min)
• Proposal to introduce 'conceptual' architecture patterns / blueprints (Frank Schawillie) (10min)
• Overview of C4InterFlow; how does this complement / converge with CALM? (@SlavaVedernikov) (10min)
• Where should we keep our meeting agendas / minutes? Whilst we're part of the DevOps Automation SIG we now have our own repo where we're building out CALM and associated capabilities. Should we move our meeting minutes and agendas to that repo to avoid confusion? (@dc-ms) (2min)
• Review of issues, AOB (@dc-ms) (7min)

Zoom info

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Github Repo: https://github.com/finos/devops-automation/

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[arhy]

Alex Armstrong / Morgan Stanley

[Budlee]

Matthew Auburn / Morgan Stanley

[grahampacker-ms]

Graham Packer / Morgan Stanley

[dc-ms]

Denis Coffaro / Morgan Stanley

[willosborne]

Will Osborne / Morgan Stanley

[aidanm3341]

Aidan McPhelim / Morgan Stanley

[lbulanti-ms]

Luigi Bulanti / Morgan Stanley

[karlmoll]

Karl Moll / FINOS

[SlavaVedernikov]

Slava Vedernikov / Solutions Unit

[lionking421]

Prashant Jasani / Morgan Stanley

[fleureedwards]

Fleur Edwards / Nomura

[ojeb2]

Oli Bage / LSEG

[aldwins-ln]

Aldwin Saugere / Morgan Stanley

[karlmoll]

Also attended:

Louis Paul / Prudential
Frank Schawillie / RBC
Shane Artis / Morgan Stanley

[matthewgardner]

Matthew Gardner / Morgan Stanley

[rocketstack-matt]

Matthew Bain / Morgan Stanley

[rocketstack-matt]

FINOS Meeting: March 26, 2024 (courtesy @dc-ms)

Commenced: 11:05 EST

Introduction / FINOS Disclaimer: Completed

Agenda & Attendance noted : #189 - Done

Previous minutes approved by attendees and closed out (Issue 184) : #184 - Done

On Site Accelerator Recap: @willosborne

• Movement to meta schema
• API Gateway Pattern
• Demo with IntelliJ with auto-complete
• Visualization – VSCode extension via Mermaid – @aidanm3341
• Visualization – Java CALM schema using Structurizr tooling into C4
• Spectral
• Design – composable interfaces while managing complexity
• Control requirements – governance over patterns

Recent Developments: @willosborne / @matthewgardner / @aidanm3341 / @Budlee
Validator:

• Spectral integration & AJV tool
• Instantiation of a pattern and the pattern itself validations
• Backwards compatibility to what degree or release fixed
  C4 Translator
• Extending to k8s
  Visualizer:
• Embedded in CLI

Proposed CLI: @grahampacker-ms / @willosborne

• Generation of pattern from schema
• Validation of pattern (JSON schema and Spectral)
• Output of SVG
• Typescript and Node

Conceptual Patterns: Frank Schawillie

• Presenting his AaC project
• Highlighting a view of controls mapping to architecture
• Spoke on scope definition and managing simplicity

C4Interflow: @SlavaVedernikov

• Brief demo but an additional session is requested

Admin Tasks:

• Where do we keep meeting agendas/minutes?
  • Let’s move to everything to our current repo. No objections.

Issues: https://github.com/finos-labs/architecture-as-code/issues

Adjourned: 12:10 EST

[rocketstack-matt]

Approved at #194