The concept of 'Programmable Pipelines'

2. The "Programmable Pipelines" concept #

Introduction to declarative syntax.

Dynamic pipelines #

Alloy introduces the concept of programmable pipelines using the River configuration language (similar to Terraform's HCL). You no longer just declare targets; you build true data flows where the output of one component becomes the input of another. This allows for complex transformations, conditional routing, and unprecedented scalability.