I worked for DRTS at the i2CAT Foundation for a few years. DRTS’s former website is no longer available, so this page records the collaboration and its technical context.
DRTS’s DACORD product in partnership with Milliman UK was developed as a research project first - then became a product itself due the complexity and advantages of such platform.
Architectured using WSO2 Stratos (later donated as the retired Apache Stratos) to provide high availability, auto scaling and scalable dynamic load balancing.
The toolset allow to analyse big datasets, stablish connections in data and find patterns, in order to make predictions.
The visualisations layer presents data using BackboneJS and D3.
From research to product
DACORD began as a research project before growing into a product. Its purpose was to work with large data sets, connect observations, find patterns and help users make predictions. The visualization layer used BackboneJS and D3 to make that analysis accessible in a browser.
The infrastructure had a different job: keep the service available while demand changed. WSO2 Stratos provided the high-availability and scaling capabilities described above. Apache Stratos is now retired, so the archive link is retained as historical context rather than a current product recommendation. This case sits in the collaborations archive alongside later software engineering engagements.