Application Architecture Optimization Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
As the number and types of workloads used to build complex applications increase, it becomes difficult to analyze and manage their architectures, leading to issues such as bottlenecks, availability risks, and inefficiencies, especially when these applications do not comply with best practices.
Innovation Solution
An optimization service within a service provider network generates architecture diagrams to identify modifications needed to align application architectures with best practices, using data on workload types, network traffic, and infrastructure configurations, and provides users with visualizations and recommendations for optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the number and types of workloads used to build an end-to-end application increase, then the application functionality and complexity increase, but it becomes more difficult to analyze and manage the application architecture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an optimization service as an intermediary system that automatically analyzes application architectures by collecting data from multiple sources (infrastructure data, network traffic data, utilization data) and generating architecture diagrams. This mediator handles the complexity of analyzing diverse workload interactions, presenting users with visual representations and optimization recommendations without requiring them to manually manage the complexity of numerous workloads and their interdependencies.
2Measurement precision
If manual analysis of complex application architectures is performed, then detailed insights can be obtained, but significant time and resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The optimization service performs self-service by automatically collecting infrastructure data, network traffic data, and utilization data from the application components, then autonomously generating architecture diagrams and identifying optimization opportunities. The system serves itself in analyzing the architecture without requiring manual intervention, thereby achieving detailed architectural insights rapidly and efficiently while minimizing time consumption and resource expenditure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously collecting utilization data and network traffic data from application components, comparing actual performance against optimization criteria, and generating recommendations based on the analysis. This automated feedback loop enables precise architecture analysis to be performed rapidly and iteratively, providing detailed insights without consuming significant manual time or resources.
3Adaptability or versatility
If application architecture does not comply with best practices, then implementation flexibility is maintained, but performance bottlenecks and availability risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The optimization service performs preliminary action by automatically analyzing the application architecture and identifying components that do not comply with best practices before they cause performance bottlenecks or availability issues. The system generates optimization recommendations in advance, allowing users to proactively address architectural deficiencies and implement best practices before reliability problems manifest, thus maintaining implementation flexibility while preventing reliability degradation.
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AI summary
Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to generate an architecture diagram that represents an architecture of a web-based application. The optimization service may use the architecture diagram to determine modifications or changes to make to the application. For example, the optimization service may compare the architecture diagram with optimized architecture diagrams that represent application best practices, and determine the modifications or change to make to the application to optimize the application and bring the application in-line with best practices. Further, the optimization service may use the architecture diagram to generate a visualization, and provide the user account with the visualization of the architecture diagram to show users their application architecture.