Cloud Platform Recipe Translation for Multi-Environment Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud computing platforms face challenges in supporting diverse underlying computing platforms without requiring significant modifications to their codebase, as existing solutions often rely on domain-specific or platform-specific approaches, limiting their ability to perform complex tasks across various domains and platforms.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a cloud computing system that processes units of work represented by platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands, referred to as 'recipes,' which are translated into platform-specific requests using a unified execution engine API, allowing the system to operate on multiple underlying platforms with minimal code changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud computing platforms use domain-specific or platform-specific approaches to support diverse underlying computing platforms, then the system can perform tasks on specific platforms, but the codebase requires significant modifications to support each new platform
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the cloud computing platform with unified API and runtime environment) between the user applications and diverse underlying computing platforms. This intermediary handles platform-specific variations, allowing applications to remain platform-independent while supporting multiple underlying platforms through a common interface layer
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud computing platform implements a universal execution environment that can execute applications across multiple diverse underlying computing platforms. The unified API and runtime environment provide multi-functional capabilities, enabling the same application to run on different platforms without modification, thus achieving platform independence
2Adaptability or versatility
If cloud computing platforms use platform-independent commands (recipes) to represent units of work, then the system achieves flexibility across diverse platforms, but requires translation mechanisms to convert commands to platform-specific requests
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs the cloud computing platform as an intermediary that translates platform-independent recipe commands into platform-specific execution requests. This translation layer handles the complexity of mapping generic commands to platform-specific operations, maintaining platform independence while enabling execution on diverse underlying platforms
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the command execution process into distinct layers: the high-level platform-independent recipe definition layer, the translation layer that converts recipes to platform-specific requests, and the execution layer that runs commands on underlying platforms. This segmentation isolates translation complexity in a dedicated layer while maintaining simplicity at the user level
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating recipes having platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands for performing work in a cloud computing platform. One of the systems includes a plurality of execution engines, each execution engine being installed on a particular instance of an underlying computing platform, wherein each execution engine is operable to receive, through an execution engine API by a first execution engine of the plurality of execution engines installed on a first instance of a particular underlying computing platform, a plurality of platform-independent, resource-specific requests from an executor to operate on a resources in an underlying computing platform and in response, perform one or more platform-independent, resource instance-specific operations to operate on a first resource on the first instance of the particular underlying computing platform.