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 Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 2021), Pages: 9-19

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Pattern-based solution for architecting cloud-enabled software

 Author(s): Jalawi Sulaiman Alshudukhi *

 Affiliation(s):

 College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ha’il, Ha’il, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0619-0020

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.08.002

 Abstract:

Cloud computing exploits the software as a service model with distributed and interoperable services for the composition of software systems. Cloud-enabled systems that demand elasticity, scalability, and composition of services, etc., there is a need to capitalize on reusable solutions exploiting patterns and styles to architect cloud-based software. The objective of this research is to build and exploit a catalog of patterns that support reusable design knowledge to develop cloud-based architectures. We propose a three-step process with (i) pattern discovery, (ii) pattern documentation (building the catalog), and finally, (iii) pattern application (exploiting the catalog) to enable pattern-based architecting of cloud systems. We discovered seven patterns as generic and reusable solutions and demonstrate the pattern-driven architecture of the ECMC case study. Results suggest that pattern-based architecting enables the reuse of generic design decisions but lacks fine-grained architectural design. The solution is the first attempt towards establishing the catalog as a repository of patterns for architecture-based development of cloud systems. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Cloud architectures, Patterns and tactics, Pattern catalog

 Article History: Received 2 February 2021, Received in revised form 16 April 2021, Accepted 27 April 2021

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alshudukhi JS (2021). Pattern-based solution for architecting cloud-enabled software. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(8): 9-19

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