Reliable Cloud Software Development Architectures and Business Models Case Study: RIDEaaS and GAE Launcher

Development of cloud applications directly on the cloud infrastructure has become a common approach. Reliability concerns have also become more of a challenge during the last years. Our goal is to assert the potentials deriving from an integrated development environment, adopting software reliability concepts and fault tolerant techniques, as part of the cloud core services. As a methodology, we propose the implementation of a new cloud service Reliable Integrated Development Environment as a Service to become part of the existing core services. Our objectives are to 1) fulfill the need of having a development environment independent from personal desktop environments; 2) code development environment should be offered directly from the cloud service providers. With fault tolerant technique integration, we also suggest that the reliability of the cloud system should be handled from the cloud developers at software level when cloud quality assurance services fail to do so at their different levels. We also propose potential business models to become part of this core service for the major cloud providers. We introduce a new High Availability Coding model providing a roadmap for the future.