Last Updated: 2025-10-30
Version: 0.1.0-alpha
✅ Core framework is production-ready (90% complete)
❌ Missing production infrastructure (monitoring, K8s, security)
✅ Actor-based system with hot-swapping
✅ Type-safe port communication
✅ File & in-memory storage with encryption
✅ Kotlin scripting engine
✅ Workflow orchestration
✅ Real-time UI monitoring
✅ 360+ passing tests
❌ Distributed/clustered operation
❌ Kubernetes deployment
❌ Neo4j graph database
❌ Prometheus monitoring
❌ Security/auth framework
❌ Production Docker images
| Component | Status | % Complete |
|---|---|---|
| 🎯 Actor System | ✅ Excellent | 95% |
| 🔌 Port System | ✅ Excellent | 100% |
| 💾 Storage | ✅ Very Good | 85% |
| 📜 Scripting | ✅ Excellent | 100% |
| 🔄 Workflows | 🟡 Good | 85% |
| 🧪 Testing | 🟡 Good | 75% |
| 🚀 Deployment | ❌ Poor | 15% |
| 📊 Monitoring | ❌ Poor | 20% |
| 🔒 Security | ❌ None | 5% |
| 🌐 Distributed | ❌ None | 0% |
✅ Local development
✅ Single-node production apps
✅ Research & prototyping
✅ Internal tools
❌ Multi-node deployments
❌ Cloud-native applications
❌ High-security environments
❌ Large-scale distributed systems
- Deadlock Detection - Prevent hangs in production
- Integration Tests - Validate complex workflows
- Prometheus Metrics - Monitor production systems
- Kubernetes Config - Deploy to cloud
- Neo4j Integration - Graph database capabilities
| Phase | Duration | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Stability | 2-3 months | Deadlock detection, integration tests, monitoring |
| Deployment | 1-2 months | K8s configs, Docker optimization, health checks |
| Security | 2-3 months | Auth/authz, encryption, audit logs |
| Scale | 3-4 months | Clustering, distributed actors, Neo4j |
Total to Full Production: 8-12 months
- Single-node actor systems
- Hot-pluggable components
- Local or simple deployments
- Research/prototyping
- Internal tooling
- Multi-node clustering
- Cloud-native deployment
- Enterprise security
- Distributed systems
- Production monitoring
- Full Status Report: PROJECT_STATUS.md
- Design Gap Analysis: DESIGN_VS_IMPLEMENTATION.md
- Master Checklist: ../MASTER_CHECKLIST.md
- Architecture Docs: ../Architectural_Document_Solace_Core_Framework.md
SolaceCore has a solid, well-tested actor framework core (~90% done), but lacks production infrastructure (monitoring, deployment, security, clustering) needed for cloud-native distributed systems.