Tightener Roadmap

Tightener is made of several cooperating parts: a small C++ core, host adapters, TQL, local/remote node communication, and supporting tools.

Architecture Areas

Core Runtime

The core runtime provides:

• node and service abstractions
• message passing
• cooperative task execution
• TQL parsing and evaluation
• object model access
• local coordination
• logging and serialization support

Host Integration

Tightener can be embedded into host applications or helper processes. A host adapter exposes the host's capabilities to Tightener, often through TQL-accessible object model nodes.

TQL

TQL is the small built-in language used to ask a node to do work near the data or application object model it owns.

See TQL.

Local and Remote Coordination

Local nodes communicate through IPC-style mechanisms. Remote coordination is handled through gateway-style nodes so the core runtime does not force one networking strategy on every deployment.

Documentation

This wiki documents concepts and usage.