Figure 10

The overall process of applying cross-tier partitioning to a monolithic web application (process flows from left to right). The top of the figure shows the process of application partitioning through code dependency analysis and generating the application-tier IP. The bottom of the figure shows data partitioning through analyzing data access patterns and creating objective functions and dependency constraints. The two IP models are then combined and passed to an off-the-shelf IP solver to provide the solution to the optimization problem.