Overview#
This section is a detailed guide to the RTA API, Toolkit Services and their gRPC APIs.
The RTA API is the external-facing API consumed by ATLAS. This is designed to be an interface on the edge of your data environment — so you can exploit ATLAS capabilities without copying your data or making big changes to your data pipeline.
The Toolkit Services provide implementations of the API, in either a single-process or microservices architecture. They expose GPRC APIs to read, write and manage their data stores — but these are specific to these services and not part of the RTA API Specification.
This means the services in the implementation toolkit are entirely optional, and a seamless integration should be achievable in any convenient framework by implementing only the necessary parts of the RTA API.