Architecture

These pages explain how SIERRA works internally. They are most useful when writing plugins or contributing to the core, but also help explain why SIERRA behaves the way it does in edge cases.

• Plugin System
  • Infrastructure Plugins vs. the Project Plugin
  • Why Your Available Flags Depend on Which Plugins You Select
  • Where Changes Belong
• Execution Model
  • Hook Structure
  • Parallelism Paradigms
  • How the Execution Environment Controls Concurrency
• Pipeline Stages: Deep Dive
  • Stage 1