Incremental Architectural Re-engineering for the Cloud: An Overview

Abstract

The advances in cloud computing have presented the global vision of utility computing with promising trends to a new world of information and communication technology. The legacy systems built on the obsolete and older technologies are typically addressed for the modification and alteration processed to leverage the benefits of cloud. Migrating to the cloud deployment models and re-engineering the on premises applications are two main issues concerning the cloud computing deployment. It can intensely expand the quality and scope of the software applications for resource provisioning with better efficiency. Instead of opting the traditional way of modifying the entire system in one go, incremental re-engineering of software architecture can lead to a safer and flexible way involving the correction of architectural deviation of legacy systems.