HI all ,

  Mine is a microservice (REST based stateless endpoint )running on the cloud. Our service mainly deals with Invoices , where the Items of the Invoice need to be evaluated against a set of rules .

We are now evaluating Drools to implement these business rules .

I have the following query with respect to Multi-threading / Parallelism options in Drools.

Our service receives an invoice with say 15000 Items , to be processed . We need to evaluate the same set of rules for each of the items. It is Ok to process each item in  parallel .  How do I achieve this in Drools ?

Our service is called from 100 different end users . Such users may have invoices ranging  from 1 item to 15000 items in the invoice . How do I make sure that the I maintain the same response time for all ? Should I use  KIE Execution Server which is a standalone exceution server ? In such a case, is this server something like another microservice ? . So, will there not be performance issues  in making a REST call from my service to the KIE Execution Server ?   On the other hand , if I embed the runtime in my application, then will it mean that I kind of tie the runtime One to One to the user request ?

What is the best approach for the runtime considering both the use cases here ?

- 1.3.1.3. Runtime

The "runtime" requirements mentioned here are if you are deploying rules as their binary form (either as KnowledgePackage objects, or KnowledgeBase objects etc). This is an optional feature that allows you to keep your runtime very light. You may use drools-compiler to produce rule packages "out of process", and then deploy them to a runtime system. This runtime system only requires drools-core.jar and knowledge-api for execution. This is an optional deployment pattern, and many people do not need to "trim" their application this much, but it is an ideal option for certain environments.

Thanks!

Anitha .