Undeployed Topology Visualization for Software Development
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Solution Overview
Problem
Software development processes are hindered by users unfamiliar with programming languages, leading to suboptimal development and costly resource-intensive testing due to errors in source code, particularly when deploying code multiple times on clusters or cloud providers.
Innovation Solution
A user interface that generates a topology for source code without using cluster or cloud resources, utilizing a virtualized API layer to visualize and update YAML code in real time, allowing users to refine the code without incurring excessive resource usage or costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If source code is deployed multiple times on clusters or cloud providers for testing, then software application performance can be verified, but resource consumption and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary topology validation and visualization before actual deployment. The topology parser and validator analyze the source code's structural correctness in advance, identifying issues before resource-intensive deployment occurs. This preliminary action prevents multiple failed deployment attempts that would consume excessive cloud resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual representation (topology model) of the software application's structure without actual deployment. This topological copy allows validation and visualization of the application architecture, enabling performance verification of the design without consuming production cloud resources for testing.
2Productivity
If users unfamiliar with programming languages draft source code, then software application development can proceed, but errors increase leading to suboptimal development
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary topology parser and validator between the user's source code and the deployment process. This intermediary layer automatically analyzes the code's structural correctness, providing feedback and corrections without requiring the user to be an expert in the programming language, thus maintaining productivity while improving code quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback through topology visualization and validation results. When users draft source code, the system automatically generates a topology representation and identifies structural errors, returning actionable feedback that guides users to correct issues before deployment, thereby improving source code quality without slowing down development.
3Ease of operation
If topology is generated without virtualized API layer, then cluster or cloud provider resources are required, but resource costs and usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual topological representation of the software application using a virtualized API layer. This topological copy allows complete topology generation, validation, and visualization without requiring actual cluster or cloud provider computing resources, thereby maintaining ease of operation while eliminating resource consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtualized API layer acts as an intermediary between the source code and any potential deployment infrastructure. It enables topology generation and validation in isolation, preventing direct resource usage by cloud providers while still allowing complete topology analysis and visualization to proceed effortlessly.
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AI summary
Software specifications can be improved using a visualization of an undeployed topology. For example, a computing device can receive, in a first portion of a user interface, source code for a software application. The computing device can receive, at a second portion of the user interface, an interaction for generating a topology corresponding to the source code for the software application. The computing device can generate, by a virtualized application programming interface (API) layer, the topology for the software application. The computing device can display, at the user interface, the topology as a visualization of an undeployed version of the software application that represents a deployable topology of the software application.