What is Precept?

Precept is a data integration platform that allows business to access and translate data between different applications through a single, unified API.

Precept Integrations are defined as fully self-contained Portable Data Modules (PDMs.) that can be built and tested in isolation, and then shared across your organization. Write an Integration once, then run it anywhere you use Precept.

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Use Cases

• Integrated Applications

  Allow your users to bring their external data to your applications from a wide range of sources. Read our Integration Patterns guide for direction on how to integrate Precept with your own applications' UX.

• Backend Connectivity

  Create a unified data backbone across disparate applications. Read our Integration Patterns guide for directions on how to use Precept to build a unified API across your products.

Developer Experience

Precept was built for engineers, by engineers. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class Developer Experience (DX) when building integrations:

• Domain-Specifc Language

  The Portable Data Module (PDM) language was built from the ground-up to be a fully-encapsulated, type-safe way to define Data Models, Actions and Mapping logic.

• Rapid Development

  Build, ship and iterate on PDMs quickly with AI-assisted tooling and human-in-the-loop verification and fine-tuning.

• Visual Tooling

  Our integrated tools make it easy to design, test and observe complex interactions between systems.

• IDE Integration

  Our Visual Studio Code extension brings syntax highlighting, code completion and validation to a range of VSCode-compatible IDEs.

Performance & Type Soundness

The systems we worked on before Precept taught us that "Hell is other people's data". A major design goal of Precept was to make it easy to build a dynamic but type-safe system, without sacrificing performance:

• Validation Throughout

  All data flowing through Precept is strictly validated against its associated Data Model at each step of the request/response cycle. Incoming and outgoing data is rejected if it does not fulfil the 'contract' defined in a PDM.

• Ahead-of-time Compilation

  The logic required to interact with and validate data is compiled ahead-of-time when a PDM is loaded, allowing the actual runtime 'hot path' to be drastically simplified.

Runtime Flexibility

Precept has a minimal resource footprint and dependency cross-section making it easy to run anywhere and we provide resources to get you up-and-running in the most common scenarios:

• Kubernetes & Helm

  We ship a Helm Chart with sensible defaults to make it easy to run Precept on Kubernetes.

• Docker Compose

  Our Docker Compose file is ideal for running Precept locally or in a small-scale deployment.

• VM Image Coming Soon

  An Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) image compatible with major on-prem and cloud virtualization providers.

• Single Binary Coming Soon

  Run Precept to your exact specifications by deploying a single binary compatible with ARM and Intel architectures.