Physical Blocks for Microservice Composition
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is no systematic way to guide the development of cloud-born services with low complexity, and software designers lack the skills to create scalable, adaptive, and componentized applications in the microservices approach, making it challenging to combine atomic services into microservices effectively.
Innovation Solution
A composition system that uses physical blocks representing atomic services, allowing users to arrange and connect these blocks to dynamically compose microservices, with the system detecting connections, identifying necessary interfaces, and deploying the microservice upon successful configuration, while providing error notification and haptic feedback for assembly and modification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional software development methods are used to create microservices, then developers can build applications with existing skills, but the process lacks systematic guidance and becomes complex and difficult to scale
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses physical blocks as tangible copies or representations of atomic services. Each physical block corresponds to a software component, allowing developers to manipulate physical objects that mirror the digital microservice architecture. This copying approach simplifies the development process by providing a concrete, systematic method for designing complex software systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the microservice architecture into discrete atomic services, each represented by an individual physical block. This segmentation allows developers to independently design, arrange, and modify individual services without affecting the entire system, making the complex architecture more manageable and easier to manufacture.
2Ease of operation
If physical blocks are used to represent atomic services, then the development process becomes more intuitive and systematic, but the device complexity increases due to physical components
Solution Approach 1:
The physical blocks are designed as universal components that can represent any atomic service through standardized interfaces and connection mechanisms. Each block serves multiple functions: it represents a service, provides connection points for integration, and can be systematically arranged to form different microservice architectures. This universality reduces the need for specialized components for each service type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces physical blocks as intermediary objects between the developer's intent and the digital microservice implementation. These blocks serve as a mediator that translates physical arrangements into software configurations, making the development process more intuitive while managing the complexity through a standardized interface layer.
3Productivity
If manual configuration of atomic services is performed without systematic guidance, then developers have flexibility in design, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates preliminary action by pre-defining standardized interfaces and connection protocols on the physical blocks before the actual microservice configuration begins. The blocks are designed with predetermined connection points and communication protocols, allowing developers to quickly assemble and deploy microservices without time-consuming customization or debugging of interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method includes detecting, using a processor, an arrangement of a plurality of blocks that are interconnected, where each block of the plurality of blocks is a physical block representing a corresponding atomic service. It is determined, using the processor, whether each atomic service represented by a block in the plurality of blocks is configured to communicate with each other atomic service represented by an other block with which the block is interconnected in the plurality of blocks. Based at least in part on determining that each atomic service represented by a block in the plurality of blocks is configured to communicate with each other atomic service represented by an other block with which the block is interconnected in the plurality of blocks, a microservice represented by the arrangement of the plurality of blocks is defined. The microservice is deployed.