SAS Viya the newest part of the SAS platform
SAS Viya is the newest part of the SAS platform and is based on microservices. As mentioned previously in this chapter the core of this SAS Viya architecture is the CAS. SAS developers have not only rewritten procedures to take advantage of this new architecture but also continued to develop new and improved procedures. SAS Viya has been designed to be cloud ready, meaning it integrates and operates within a variety of the cloud platforms available in the market today. SAS has been rolling out new offerings on SAS Viya, and this microservices-based architecture allows three different deployment options:
- Full deployment (both programming and visual interfaces): This is the default option
- Programming-only deployment: This excludes general services and visual interfaces
- Visual-only deployment: This excludes SAS Studio and most SAS programming functionality
To further integrate SAS with other systems and programming languages, SAS Viya supports APIs aimed...