Multiplayer

What is Multiplayer?

Multiplayer is a major enhancement to the Factory BUILD platform that redefines how pipelines are created, managed, and deployed at scale. It introduces Multiple Pipelines, Shared Deployed Pipelines, an improved Merge Workflow, and a redesigned Workspace Manager, all aimed at accelerating development, enhancing collaboration, and optimizing performance.

With Multiplayer, teams can work in parallel, reduce infrastructure costs, and make faster, more controlled changes to their data pipelines—all within a single workspace.

Why Multiplayer?

As data environments grow more complex, teams need faster, more flexible, and scalable ways to manage data pipelines. Multiplayer was designed to meet these demands by solving key challenges:

• 🚀 Speed & Efficiency – Parallel execution of multiple pipelines significantly reduces data processing and deployment time.
• 🔄 Improved Change Management – Selectively reprocess only the pipelines that change, avoiding unnecessary redeployments.
• 🤝 Seamless Collaboration – Developers can work on different pipelines in the same workspace without interfering with each other.
• 📊 Optimized Resource Usage – Shared deployed pipelines reduce infrastructure overhead by allowing multiple workspaces to reference the same deployment.

Multiplayer unlocks enterprise-scale data operations, making it easier than ever to build, deploy, and maintain pipelines in a high-performance environment.

Key Features

🔹 Multiple Pipelines

Develop and run multiple pipelines within a single workspace, enabling teams to:
✔ Build and iterate faster by processing data in parallel.
✔ Minimize downtime by redeploying only the pipelines that change.
✔ Collaborate efficiently by assigning different pipelines to different developers.

🔗 Shared Deployed Pipelines

Reduce redundancy and infrastructure costs by allowing multiple workspaces to reference the same deployed pipeline, while still maintaining independent drafts.
✔ Ensure consistency across teams by using a shared pipeline.
✔ Make controlled changes by modifying drafts before deployment.
✔ Improve efficiency by reducing the number of deployed pipelines.

🛠 New Workspace Manager with Validation

A redesigned split-screen UI that provides better visibility and faster navigation across workspaces, pipelines, and artifacts.
✔ Color-coded validation helps detect errors and changes instantly.
✔ Seamless workflow navigation enables faster switching between artifacts.
✔ Powerful search lets users find pipelines, workspaces, and datasets instantly.

🔄 Enhanced Merge Workflow

Includes Runtime Fields (RTFs) and KPIs in the merge process, giving teams full control over how pipelines are merged.
✔ Pipeline name-based merging ensures clear and structured integration.
✔ Full visibility into RTFs and KPIs in the merging workspace.
✔ Granular merge control to decide which changes to keep, modify, or discard.