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Towards a Model-Driven Framework for Data and Application Portability in PaaS Clouds

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Cloud computing paradigm has gained momentum during last decade owing to the numerous benefits (Cost, Scalability, etc.) it offers. Several developers and organizations have steadily got interested in PaaS (Platform as a Service) clouds since it allows deploying applications without any requirement for a consecrate infrastructure, installations of dependencies or server configurations. However, there still exist some issues that need to be resolved to make Cloud computing and PaaS widely adopted. Portability of applications along with the portability of databases (DBs) among heterogeneous cloud platforms is one of the issues. To address this, a middleware platform has been proposed in this paper in which the application layer and the DB layer of that application shave been decoupled from each other. Both the layers can be ported from one platform (PaaS) to another PaaS independent of each other. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach has been leveraged to make the middleware flexible, further making application layer and DB layer portable, productive and reusable. MDE has been proved to be a better alternative to standardization in the literature.

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    Kiranbir Kaur, Sandeep Sharma & Karanjeet Singh Kahlon

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Kaur, K., Sharma, S., Kahlon, K.S. (2020). Towards a Model-Driven Framework for Data and Application Portability in PaaS Clouds. In: Luhach, A., Kosa, J., Poonia, R., Gao, XZ., Singh, D. (eds) First International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Computational Intelligence. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1045. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0029-9_8

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