What is Catalyst Signals?

Signals is a cutting-edge event bus service of Catalyst that transforms the way organizations use Event-Driven Architectures (EDAs) to streamline their operations and enhance efficiency. It helps you establish near instantaneous communication between decoupled applications and services.

The platform simplifies event-driven architectures for developers and non-developers, removing the need for extensive coding and configuration. It’s designed to be accessible to a wide audience with varying technical backgrounds, enabling the development of ad-hoc integrations between Publishers and Targets to be easy for everyone.

The platform’s unparalleled ease of use through its comprehensive library of predefined publishers and events eliminates the need for manual event schema creation. Even for custom publishers, you can generate schema from live event payloads. Leverage the platform alongside Catalyst Serverless components, such as Functions and Circuits, to ensure high functionality in managing decoupled workflow and event broadcast.

Catalyst Signals offers robust customization capabilities that result in improved compatibility and interoperability across different systems and platforms. Whether it’s defining a complex event processing logic or implementing advanced routing and filtering rules, it provides the flexibility and control that you need to optimize the event-driven architectures for maximum efficiency and performance.

This is a game-changing solution for businesses to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.

Architecture

Let’s walk you through the outright architecture of Signals to connect with multiple cloud environments to process and deliver real-time data.

An event is a JSON-formatted message that represents a change or occurrence in a system. The Target applications listen to these events from the Publisher to perform orchestrations. In this process, the event from one software source acts as a trigger for workflows in different software. Targets receive event details through Webhooks, Functions, and Circuits.

Imagine that you have a travel and hospitality company called Travel Bureau. It has an online platform for booking accommodations, flights, and other travel related services. The company uses multiple services for handling different aspects of reservation management, customer service and support, personalized recommendations, and more.

Here’s an overview of Signals implementation for the Travel Bureau.

• Booking Service: When a user makes a booking on the company’s platform, it publishes a ‘New Booking’ event to the Catalyst Signals.
• Reservation Management: The Reservation Service subscribes to the ‘New Booking’ event. Upon receiving the event, it collects the details from it, such as reservation dates, customer preferences, and service selections. With these details, it updates and manages the reservation in real-time.
• Customer Service and Support: The Customer Service also subscribes to the ‘New Booking’ event. Once the booking is completed, it reaches out to the user and inquires about any specific requirements, requests, and complaints, if any.
• Personalized Recommendations: The Recommendation Engine listens for the ‘New Booking’ event with the user’s preferences and service selections. It generates personalized recommendations for accommodations, activities, and destinations based on it. This helps in enhancing the user experience and increasing conversion rates.

Catalyst Signals connects these software sources to deliver outstanding end-user experiences and optimize operations through real-time event processing and intelligent automation.

Continue on to the next page to learn about the core elements and other features of Signals in detail.