DESIGNING FOR CAP - The Effect of Design Decisions on the CAP Properties of Cloud-native Applications

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Christoph Fehling, Frank Leymann

2012

Abstract

The limitations of distributed systems to satisfy the combination of consistency, availability and network partitioning tolerance requirements are well-documented and formally proven. There is however a limited amount of works discussing the impact of these limitations on designing applications native to the Cloud. This work addresses this particular need by proposing an approach for considering these requirements while designing an application. Our contributions are therefore a methodology for Cloud-native application design which considers consistency, availability and network partitioning tolerance, and a framework instantiating this methodology by using design patterns and their realization solutions on the Cloud. We also show how the proposed methodology can be used in practice to design an application solution with desired properties.

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Andrikopoulos V., Fehling C. and Leymann F. (2012). DESIGNING FOR CAP - The Effect of Design Decisions on the CAP Properties of Cloud-native Applications . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 365-374. DOI: 10.5220/0003931503650374


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@conference{closer12,
author={Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Christoph Fehling and Frank Leymann},
title={DESIGNING FOR CAP - The Effect of Design Decisions on the CAP Properties of Cloud-native Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={365-374},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003931503650374},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - DESIGNING FOR CAP - The Effect of Design Decisions on the CAP Properties of Cloud-native Applications
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Andrikopoulos V.
AU - Fehling C.
AU - Leymann F.
PY - 2012
SP - 365
EP - 374
DO - 10.5220/0003931503650374