On-Premises Application Cloud Migration Refactoring Path
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud are time-consuming and lack comprehensive utilities and best practices, leading to issues such as logic loss and inconsistency between old and new environments, with limited tools for automated refactoring and integration.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for constructing a refactoring path that discovers application attributes, creates a target cloud environment, and parses the on-premises application through pre-constructed refactoring stages, analyzing impacts and recommending migration, transformation, or rebuild, while ensuring compatibility and synchronizing dependencies and interfaces with the target cloud environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If on-premises applications are migrated to cloud by completely rewriting the application for the new environment, then the application can be adapted to the cloud environment, but the migration process becomes time-consuming and logic may be lost during conversion
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the on-premises application to automatically generate a refactoring path and migration plan before actual migration execution. This includes discovering application attributes, identifying refactoring stages, and preparing transformation scripts in advance, which significantly reduces migration time while preserving application logic
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual model or copy of the on-premises application architecture and analyzes it to generate migration strategies. This allows the system to understand the application structure without manually rewriting code, thereby reducing migration time while ensuring adaptability to the cloud environment
2Reliability
If manual refactoring is performed to migrate applications to cloud, then application logic can be preserved, but the process lacks automation and comprehensive utilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation by automatically discovering application attributes, analyzing dependencies, generating refactoring paths, and executing migration tasks without requiring manual intervention. The system includes comprehensive utilities that autonomously handle code transformation, dependency resolution, and validation, thereby maintaining logic preservation while achieving high automation
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor the migration process, validate transformed code against original logic, and automatically adjust refactoring strategies. This ensures logic preservation while maintaining high automation through iterative validation and correction
3Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive application redesign is performed for cloud migration, then the application can leverage cloud environment effectively, but the process becomes complex and requires extensive resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the migration process into distinct, manageable stages including discovery, analysis, refactoring path generation, transformation, and validation. Each stage handles specific aspects of the migration, reducing overall process complexity while achieving comprehensive cloud optimization through systematic progression
4Reliability
If on-premises applications are migrated without automated refactoring tools, then existing tools are simpler to use, but migration consistency between old and new environments cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a universal migration platform that handles multiple application types, cloud environments, and refactoring scenarios through a single integrated toolset. This ensures migration consistency across diverse situations while managing complexity through standardized processes and comprehensive utilities
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AI summary
This disclosure relates generally to method and system of constructing refactoring path for on-premises application migration to cloud. Migrating an on-premises application to a new cloud environment without altering the application code is time consuming and complex. The method disclosed discovers a set of attributes of on-premises application received from a user for cloud migration to create a target cloud environment. The on-premises application is parsed to the target cloud environment through a set of pre-constructed refactoring stages. Further, a migration analysis is performed through one or more impacts of the set of pre-constructed refactoring stages over a set of considerations. Each impact is analyzed to recommend the on-premises application that qualifies for at least one of a migration, a transformation and a rebuild. The on-premises application is categorically mapped to the target cloud environment based on one or more variations identified across each technology domain with corresponding sub-technology domain.