vFlow: A GUI-Based Tool for Building Batch Applications for Cloud Computing

TL;DR

vFlow is a GUI-based framework that simplifies designing and managing batch processing applications in cloud environments by translating visual plans into executable cloud API documents.

Contribution

It introduces vFlow, a novel tool that automates batch application management in the cloud through visual design and translation to cloud APIs.

Findings

Enables rapid design of cloud batch applications.

Supports execution of complex batch management tasks.

Demonstrates utility with multiple operational scenarios.

Abstract

In this paper we introduce vFlow - A framework for rapid designing of batch processing applications for Cloud Computing environment. vFlow batch processing system extracts tasks from the vPlans diagrams, systematically captures the dynamics in batch application management tasks, and translates them to Cloud environment API, named vDocuments, that can be used to execute batch processing applications. vDocuments do not only enable the complete execution of low-level configuration management tasks, but also allow the construction of more sophisticated tasks, while imposing additional reasoning logic to realize batch application management objectives in Cloud environments. We present the design of the vFlow framework and illustrate its utility by presenting the implementation of several sophisticated operational tasks.