A Bird´s-Eye View on Modelling Malleable Multi-cloud Applications

Cloud platforms advances have changed the application development landscape. Cloud platforms abstract the complexity of application delivery to enable rapid development and easy management. This changes the way development teams need to think about and deal with the underlying resources while building and managing their applications. This research describes a new methodology supported by a modeling framework to enable organizations that build cloud applications (e.g., SaaS providers) to unbiasedly exploit the cloud platform building blocks to leverage the flexibility, reliability and scalability that these platforms provide to the application layer.