Modeling cloud applications for partition contingency

Abstract

The focus of this research work is to investigate the problem of providing partition tolerance in cloud-based applications while maintaining application data integrity. This study looks at developing a cloud application to track sales of admission tickets to a battlefield as a motivating example. Web browsers are run inside the premises of the enterprise selling the tickets, while the rest of the application architecture is stored in the cloud. The internet connection represents a single point of failure for the application. Often humanities attractions such as battlefields are physically located in rural areas where internet redundancy is expensive at best. Developing a cloud application that can tolerate network partitions needs to be considered in the modeling phase of cloud software project.