Applying Architectural Templates for Design-Time Scalability and Elasticity Analyses of SaaS Applications
Sebastian Lehrig · 2014
Software architects plan, model, and analyze architectures of large software like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The scalability and elasticity of these applications is crucially impacted by architects' early decision for an architectural style. However, whether this decision fostered scalability and elasticity can currently only be tested with the final application deployed in the target cloud computing environment. This process leads to the high risk of unsatisfying scalability/elasticity and expensive re-implementations.