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+# Tasker Roadmap - Production-Ready Workflow Orchestration
+
+## 🎉 **Current State: Production-Ready Maturity**
+
+**Tasker v2.4.0** represents a significant milestone - a robust, enterprise-grade workflow orchestration engine with comprehensive features, excellent developer experience, and production-ready observability.
+
+### ✅ **Core Competencies - COMPLETED**
+- **Workflow Orchestration**: Complex dependency graphs, parallel execution, state management
+- **Task & Step Management**: Comprehensive lifecycle management with retry strategies
+- **Database Foundation**: Multi-database support, optimized SQL functions, migrations
+- **Authentication & Authorization**: Provider-agnostic with JWT example, role-based permissions
+- **REST API**: Complete handler discovery, task management, OpenAPI documentation
+- **Configuration System**: Type-safe dry-struct validation, comprehensive parameter coverage
+- **Health Monitoring**: Kubernetes-compatible endpoints, detailed system status
+- **Event System**: 50+ lifecycle events with pub/sub architecture
+- **Registry Systems**: Thread-safe HandlerFactory, PluginRegistry, SubscriberRegistry
+- **Telemetry Foundation**: OpenTelemetry integration, plugin architecture, metrics backend
+- **Developer Experience**: Generators, comprehensive documentation, 1,479 passing tests
+
+### ✅ **Enterprise Features - COMPLETED**
+- **Thread Safety**: Concurrent operations with `Concurrent::Hash` storage
+- **Structured Logging**: Correlation IDs, JSON formatting, comprehensive context
+- **Interface Validation**: Strict contract enforcement across all components
+- **Namespace Organization**: Multi-tenant handler organization with versioning
+- **Error Handling**: Fail-fast philosophy with detailed error reporting
+- **Performance**: Optimized SQL functions, minimal overhead, production-tested
+- **Observability**: Event-driven architecture with comprehensive instrumentation
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 **Near-Term Roadmap (v2.4.1 - v2.5.0)**
+
+### ✅ **v2.4.1 - API Documentation Complete**
+*Status: COMPLETED ✅*
+
+**Objective**: Complete API documentation ecosystem - **ACHIEVED**
+- ✅ **RSwag Integration**: Successfully converted health & metrics controller specs to RSwag format
+- ✅ **OpenAPI Completeness**: All endpoints documented with comprehensive schemas and examples
+- ✅ **Interactive Swagger UI**: Professional API console accessible at `/tasker/api-docs`
+- ✅ **Rails Engine Integration**: Solved RSwag mounting challenge with proper dummy app configuration
+
+**Key Achievements**:
+- **Complete Endpoint Coverage**: Health, metrics, handlers, tasks, GraphQL all documented
+- **Interactive Testing**: Try-it-out functionality for all endpoints via Swagger UI
+- **Professional Presentation**: Enterprise-grade API documentation matching industry standards
+- **Authentication Documentation**: Comprehensive auth scenarios and examples
+- **Developer Experience**: Streamlined integration with clear schemas and response examples
+
+### **v2.5.0 - Integration Validation & Examples**
+*Timeline: 3-4 weeks*
+
+**Objective**: Prove production readiness through real-world integration
+
+#### **Integration Testing Scripts**
+Create Rails runner scripts for validating external system integration:
+
+**Jaeger Integration Scripts** (using [Jaeger APIs](https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/2.7/architecture/apis/)):
+```ruby
+# scripts/validate_jaeger_integration.rb
+# - Query traces via Jaeger HTTP API
+# - Validate span hierarchy and timing
+# - Test trace correlation across workflow steps
+# - Generate integration health reports
+```
+
+**Prometheus Integration Scripts** (using [Prometheus APIs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/)):
+```ruby
+# scripts/validate_prometheus_integration.rb
+# - Query metrics via Prometheus HTTP API
+# - Validate metric collection and labeling
+# - Test alerting rule compatibility
+# - Generate metrics health dashboards
+```
+
+#### **Demo Application & Guided Experience**
+**Comprehensive Demo Setup** using [DummyJSON](https://dummyjson.com/docs):
+```ruby
+# scripts/setup_demo_application.rb
+# Creates a functioning Rails app demonstrating:
+# - Complex workflow patterns (user registration, order processing, inventory management)
+# - External API integration with DummyJSON
+# - Error handling and retry scenarios
+# - Multi-step business processes
+# - Real-time monitoring and observability
+```
+
+**Enhanced Quick Start Guide**:
+- Step-by-step walkthrough of demo app creation
+- Detailed explanation of each workflow pattern
+- Integration points and configuration options
+- Troubleshooting and best practices
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 **Medium-Term Vision (v3.0.0+)**
+
+### **Content & Community Building**
+*Timeline: 6-12 months*
+
+**Educational Content Strategy**:
+- **Blog Post Series**: "Building Production Workflows with Tasker"
+  - Core concepts and value proposition
+  - Real-world use case walkthroughs
+  - Advanced patterns and configurations
+  - Performance optimization techniques
+- **Video Content**: Short-form tutorials and deep-dives
+  - "Tasker in 5 Minutes" - Core value demonstration
+  - "Complex Workflow Patterns" - Advanced use cases
+  - "Production Deployment" - Operations and monitoring
+- **Community Engagement**: Conference talks, open-source showcases
+
+### **Developer Experience Enhancement**
+*Timeline: 3-6 months*
+
+**Advanced Tooling**:
+- **Workflow Designer**: Visual workflow creation and editing
+- **Performance Profiler**: Built-in bottleneck identification
+- **Testing Framework**: Workflow-specific testing utilities
+- **Deployment Tools**: Docker images, Helm charts, Terraform modules
+
+---
+
+## 🌟 **Long-Term Vision: Polyglot Ecosystem**
+
+### **Rust Core Extraction**
+*Timeline: 12-24 months*
+
+**Strategic Vision**: Extract core workflow orchestration logic into a high-performance Rust library, enabling polyglot ecosystem adoption.
+
+#### **Phase 1: Core Logic Extraction**
+- **Workflow Engine**: State machine logic, dependency resolution
+- **Query Optimization**: SQL generation and execution planning
+- **Orchestration Logic**: Task scheduling, retry mechanisms
+- **Event System**: High-performance pub/sub with minimal allocations
+
+#### **Phase 2: Language Bindings**
+**Ruby Integration** via [Magnus](https://github.com/matsadler/magnus):
+```ruby
+# Tasker::Core (Rust-powered)
+# - Zero-copy data structures where possible
+# - Native Ruby ergonomics maintained
+# - Backward compatibility guaranteed
+```
+
+**Python Integration** via [PyO3](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3):
+```python
+# tasker_py - Python workflow orchestration
+# - Django/Flask integration patterns
+# - Async/await compatibility
+# - Pandas/NumPy data processing workflows
+```
+
+**TypeScript/JavaScript** via [Deno FFI](https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/ffi/) or WASM:
+```typescript
+// @tasker/core - Node.js/Deno workflow engine
+// - Express/Fastify middleware integration
+// - Promise-based async patterns
+// - TypeScript-first API design
+```
+
+#### **Phase 3: Distributed Architecture**
+**Cross-Language Workflow Coordination**:
+- **Shared State Management**: Distributed workflow state across language boundaries
+- **Event Coordination**: Cross-system event propagation and handling
+- **Resource Sharing**: Efficient data passing between polyglot components
+- **Unified Monitoring**: Single observability plane across all language implementations
+
+### **Ecosystem Benefits**
+- **Performance**: Memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions from Rust core
+- **Reliability**: Proven workflow logic across all language implementations
+- **Flexibility**: Choose the right language for each component while maintaining workflow consistency
+- **Scalability**: High-performance core enables massive workflow processing
+- **Innovation**: Enable new architectural patterns in polyglot distributed systems
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 **Strategic Priorities**
+
+### **Immediate Focus (Next 3 Months)**
+1. **API Documentation Completion** (v2.4.1)
+2. **Integration Validation Scripts** (Jaeger, Prometheus)
+3. **Demo Application Creation** (DummyJSON integration)
+4. **Content Creation Planning** (Blog posts, videos)
+
+### **Medium-Term Goals (3-12 Months)**
+1. **Community Building** (Content publication, conference talks)
+2. **Advanced Developer Tools** (Visual designer, profiling tools)
+3. **Enterprise Features** (Advanced monitoring, deployment automation)
+4. **Ecosystem Expansion** (Additional language bindings research)
+
+### **Long-Term Vision (1-2 Years)**
+1. **Rust Core Development** (Performance and memory safety)
+2. **Polyglot Ecosystem** (Multi-language workflow coordination)
+3. **Distributed Orchestration** (Cross-system workflow management)
+4. **Industry Leadership** (Establish Tasker as the polyglot workflow standard)
+
+---
+
+## 🏆 **Success Metrics**
+
+### **Technical Excellence**
+- **Test Coverage**: Maintain >70% with comprehensive integration tests
+- **Performance**: Sub-100ms API response times, efficient SQL execution
+- **Reliability**: 99.9%+ uptime in production deployments
+- **Security**: Zero critical vulnerabilities, comprehensive auth/authz
+
+### **Developer Adoption**
+- **Documentation Quality**: Complete API coverage, clear examples
+- **Ease of Use**: <30 minute setup for complex workflows
+- **Community Growth**: Active contributors, issue resolution, feature requests
+- **Enterprise Readiness**: Production deployments, case studies, testimonials
+
+### **Ecosystem Impact**
+- **Cross-Language Adoption**: Successful bindings for 3+ languages
+- **Performance Leadership**: Benchmark superiority in workflow processing
+- **Innovation Catalyst**: Enable new architectural patterns and use cases
+- **Industry Recognition**: Conference presentations, technical publications
+
+---
+
+**Tasker represents the evolution from a side-project to a production-ready, enterprise-grade workflow orchestration platform with a vision for polyglot distributed systems.**