SmartCLIDE

The main objective of SmartCLIDE is to propose a radically new smart cloud-native development environment, based on the coding-by-demonstration principle, that will support creators of cloud services in the discovery, creation, composition, testing and deployment of full-stack data-centred services and applications in the cloud. SmartCLIDE will provide high levels of abstraction at all stages (development, testing, deployment and run-time) as well as self-discovery of IaaS and SaaS Services. SmartCLIDE will provide several categories of abstractions: in the development phase, SmartCLIDE will provide abstractions on data transformations or processing; in the testing phase, mechanisms to visualize flow and status or artefacts to automatically test the expected behaviour; in the deployment phase, abstractions of physical and virtual resources; or at run-time, mechanisms to monitor the performance and operation of the service.

The cloud nature of the environment will enable collaboration between different stakeholders. The self-discovery of IaaS and SaaS services and the high levels of abstraction will facilitate the composition and deployment of new services by non-technical staff (with no previous experience in programming or in the administration of systems and infrastructure). Equally, hiding the complexity of the infrastructure, and adding intelligence to this layer, will allow us to select the most appropriate infrastructure services in each case.
SmartCLIDE will allow SMEs and Public Administration to boost the adoption of cloud-based solutions, as it will be validated through one solution oriented to public administration (Social Security System) and three products from software development SMEs within the consortium.