AI Source Code Commit Scheduling via Risk and Error Budget Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Coordinating source code commits across multiple repositories while managing risks and error budgets is challenging, as existing methods lack efficient AI-driven approaches to identify similar commits and determine optimal implementation times, leading to potential system downtime and operational risks.

Innovation Solution

A processor uses an AI model to identify similar source code commits, assess implementation risks, and determine error budgets for each repository, thereby scheduling commits based on risk and error tolerance, optimizing the timing of deployments across multiple repositories.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If source code commits are implemented across multiple repositories to add new functionalities or fix issues, then system capabilities are improved, but system reliability deteriorates due to potential damage from source code modifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem capabilitiesVSAvoidsystem reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary risk assessment and error budget evaluation before implementing source code commits. The AI model analyzes the reference commit and identifies similar commits across repositories, determining potential risks and checking error budgets in advance to prevent system damage while enabling safe updates

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from error budget monitoring and risk assessment results to dynamically adjust commit implementation decisions. The AI model continuously learns from past commit outcomes and error budget consumption patterns to improve risk prediction accuracy and optimize timing for future commits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Device complexity

If traditional methods are used to manage source code commits across repositories, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but coordination efficiency deteriorates due to lack of AI-driven approaches for identifying similar commits and determining optimal implementation times

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation simplicityVSAvoidcoordination efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The AI model serves as an intermediary between source code commits and repository implementation. It automatically identifies similar commits across repositories, assesses risks, determines error budgets, and recommends optimal implementation timing, eliminating the need for manual coordination while improving efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables repositories to self-assess their error budgets and self-determine optimal commit timing based on AI-generated risk assessments. Each repository can independently make informed decisions about when to implement commits based on its own error budget status and the AI's risk analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Speed

If source code commits are implemented without considering error budgets, then deployment speed is increased, but system downtime increases due to potential errors and failures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedeployment speedVSAvoidsystem downtime
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system checks error budgets before implementing source code commits to ensure that deployments occur when the system can tolerate potential failures. This preliminary check prevents commits from being implemented during critical periods when downtime would be unacceptable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts commit implementation timing based on real-time error budget status. Error budgets are updated continuously based on system performance, incident history, and current load conditions, allowing the system to optimize deployment timing and minimize downtime while maintaining deployment speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11809859B2Coordinated source code commits utilizing risk and error tolerance
Publication Date: 2023.11.07 KYNDRYL INC
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AI summary

A processor may receive data regarding a reference source code commit. The processor may identify, using an artificial intelligence model, a first group of source code commits including source code commits similar to the reference source code commit, where each source code commit in the first group is associated with a repository. The processor may determine, using the artificial intelligence model, a first risk associated with implementing a first source code commit from the first group of source code commits. The processor may determine an error budget associated with a first repository associated with the first source code commit. The processor may determine a first time for implementing the first source code commit.