Proxy Server for Interactive Notebook Execution in Distributed Cloud
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current processes for generating machine learning models in distributed computing environments are inefficient due to high resource consumption, complex data access management, and security challenges, particularly in transferring data between different platforms and maintaining production data security.
Innovation Solution
A proxy server system that provides an interactive development environment, enforcing scripting and security rules to ensure safe data access, optimize resource usage, and manage data access across various cloud platforms by scanning and encapsulating interactive computing documents, executing them optimally based on predefined metrics, and monitoring execution for security and performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If interactive computing documents are executed directly on cloud platforms, then data processing capability is improved, but resource consumption increases and security control becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a proxy server as an intermediary component between the client's interactive development environment and the cloud computing platform. The proxy server scans scripting code elements, enforces security rules, and manages execution requests, thereby enabling data processing on cloud platforms while maintaining security control and optimizing resource usage through centralized mediation
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cloud platforms are used for data processing, then processing flexibility is improved, but data access management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The proxy server is designed with multi-functional capabilities that enable it to handle security scanning, rule enforcement, and execution management across multiple different cloud computing platforms. This universal approach allows the system to work with various platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) through a single unified interface, thereby maintaining processing flexibility while reducing data access management complexity
3Reliability
If security rules are enforced on all scripting code, then data security is improved, but execution time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The proxy server performs security scanning and rule enforcement on scripting code elements before they are executed on the cloud computing platform. By conducting security checks in advance (preliminarily), the system ensures data security is maintained while avoiding repeated security validations during execution, thereby minimizing the impact on overall execution time
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AI summary
A system and method of providing an interactive development environment include providing a proxy server, adapted to interface at least one cloud-based platform and one or more client modules, operatively connected to the proxy server, where each client module is associated with a respective user development platform. At least one client module receives, from the respective user development platform, one or more interactive computing documents, commonly referred to as notebooks, each representing one or more scripting code elements, commonly referred to as cells. The proxy server scans the one or more cells, according to a set of predetermined scripting rules, and encapsulates one or more notebooks in one or more data containers, based on the scan. The proxy server may subsequently transmits the one or more data containers to the at least one cloud-based platform, to execute at least one cell of the one or more notebooks.