Division of labor
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Development teams can focus on implementing functionality while management, administration, and operations teams focus on formulating and implementing policies.
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Leverage
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Declarative policies generalize frequently-used solutions into conventions (called policy templates). You gain leverage by reusing them many times.
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Concise specification
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You can use declarative policies to configure policy templates with a small number of parameters which modifies its behavior to a specific business situation.
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Comprehension
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- Declarative policies are concise and based on standardized conventions, therefore they are easier to understand and verify than procedural code.
- The declarative language of policies specifies the desired result, and the distribution engine delivers operational details of policies.
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Flexibility
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- Declarative policies are easier to change than procedural code and respond quickly to changing business conditions.
- Declarative policies can change quickly to bring the enterprise into compliance. Instead of waiting for code changes, the distribution engine immediately applies and enforces new or modified policies.
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