Building MDE Cloud Services with Distil

—Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) techniques, like transformations, queries, and code generators, were devised for local, single-CPU architectures. However, the increasing complexity of the systems to be built and their high demands in terms of computation, memory and storage, requires more scalable and flexible MDE techniques, likely using services and the cloud. Nonetheless, the cost of developing MDE solutions on the cloud is high without proper automation mechanisms. In order to alleviate this situation, we present DISTIL, a domain-specific language to describe MDE services, which is able to generate (NoSQL-based) respositories for the artefacts of interest, and skeletons for (single or composite) services, ready to be deployed in Heroku. We illustrate the approach through the construction of a repository and a set of cloud-based services for bent¯o reusable transformation components.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: MODELS
• Authors: Carlos Carrascal Manzanares, Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado, Juan de Lara
• Keywords: MODELS 2015, Natural Language Processing