Cloud-Hosted Development Module for Real-Time Cloud Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Developers face inefficiencies in writing, testing, and debugging cloud applications due to mismatches between the environment where code is written and executed, leading to delays in bug identification and resource contention, as well as inconsistent and insecure development environments.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-hosted development module that provides a native environment for each developer, allowing real-time validation and debugging, with instant provisioning and secure, dedicated environments accessible through a browser, supporting platform, language, and database agnosticism.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If developers write code in a local environment different from the public cloud environment, then development can proceed without waiting for cloud provisioning, but the code cannot be validated or debugged in real-time against actual cloud resources

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecode writing speedVSAvoidcode validation accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a cloud-hosted development environment as an intermediary between local development and public cloud deployment. This intermediate environment runs in the cloud and provides a native development experience with full access to provisioned cloud resources, allowing real-time validation and debugging while maintaining the benefits of local code editing capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the development process into distinct components: local IDE for code writing, cloud-hosted development environment for validation and debugging, and CI/CD pipeline for deployment. This segmentation allows each component to operate in its optimal environment without the constraints of the others, resolving the contradiction between development speed and validation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of manufacture

If developers provision cloud resources and write code in separate environments, then resource provisioning can be done independently, but the developer loses the ability to validate and debug code in real-time

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource provisioning flexibilityVSAvoidcode validation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges resource provisioning and code validation into a unified cloud-hosted development environment. When a developer provisions cloud resources, the system automatically creates a dedicated development environment in the cloud with pre-configured access to those resources, allowing immediate code validation and debugging without separate provisioning steps.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If developers use local environments similar to public cloud resources, then development can proceed without cloud dependency, but the environment is not truly representative and results in subtle bugs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevelopment independenceVSAvoidenvironment representativeness

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates an accurate copy of the public cloud environment within the cloud-hosted development environment. Instead of using simplified local simulations, the system provisions actual cloud resources and creates a development environment that replicates the production environment's configuration, networking, and resource access patterns, ensuring bugs are caught before deployment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Adaptability or versatility

If developers punch security holes to access public cloud resources on-premises, then cloud resources become accessible locally, but security is compromised and resource contention occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource accessibilityVSAvoidenvironment exclusivity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional approach by bringing the development environment to the cloud rather than accessing cloud resources locally. Developers run their IDE and development tools within a secure cloud-hosted environment that has authorized access to provisioned cloud resources, eliminating the need for security compromises while ensuring exclusive resource access through proper authentication and isolation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS12407964B2System, method, and computer program for implementing a cloud hosted development module

Publication Date: 2025.09.02 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA

AI summary

Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for developing a cloud application. A processor automatically provisions a user specific native cloud developer environment exclusive to a particular developer based on cloud resources identified by the particular developer. Processor hosts the user specific native cloud developer environment onto a cloud, so that the user specific native cloud developer environment and the cloud run in the same environment; writes code for developing the cloud application in an integrated development environment within the user specific native cloud developer environment that has been provisioned; automatically determines whether the code is working in the integrated development environment as well as in a cloud development environment within the cloud; and completes development of the cloud application based on determining that the code is working in the integrated development environment as well as in the cloud development environment.