BRMS Staging Environment for Production Rollout
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of rollout systems and procedures for maintaining production environments in industries like banking and insurance leads to lengthy rollout processes, conflicting with the need for timely deployment and regulatory compliance, often requiring costly emergency fixes or disrupting ongoing changes.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a Business Rule Management System (BRMS) topology that allows for strategic maintenance by selectively executing batch files and transformation scripts in a staging environment, simulating future dates to test changes without following the standard rollout cycle, enabling quicker modifications and testing in an emergency fix environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If standard rollout procedures are followed to ensure production environment stability, then reliability is improved, but the rollout cycle time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by copying production data tables to a staging environment before actual rollout, and using date override tables to simulate future dates in advance. This allows testing and validation to be performed ahead of time in a controlled staging environment, so that when the actual rollout occurs, the production environment can be updated quickly with pre-validated changes, thus maintaining reliability while reducing rollout cycle time.
2Reliability
If standard rollout procedures are followed, then production environment protection is improved, but the speed of deployment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying by creating a staging environment that replicates the production environment structure and copying data tables to this staging environment. Changes are first implemented and tested in the copied staging environment, then only validated changes are copied back to production. This allows rapid iteration and testing in the staging environment without risking production stability, thereby improving deployment speed while maintaining production protection.
3Productivity
If emergency fixes are implemented to accelerate deployment, then productivity is improved, but device complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a staging environment as an intermediary between development and production environments. This staging environment serves as a mediator where changes can be tested with simulated future dates using date override tables, allowing validation without requiring complex emergency fix pipelines or parallel hardware environments. The intermediary staging environment simplifies the overall system architecture while enabling faster, safer deployments.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for strategic maintenance of a production environment utilizing a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) topology by selectively executing batch files and transformation scripts to edit production tables in a staging environment and test the edited tables in an emergency fix environment utilizing an edited date override table.