A Practical Cloud API Complementary Recommendation Service for Mashup Creation

With the popularity of the service-oriented development paradigm in the cloud era, numerous cloud APIs have been developed. The continuous proliferation of cloud APIs has submerged developers in a sea of options, bringing the need for cloud API recommendation techniques. Most existing cloud API recommendation methods focus on theoretical studies and neglect practical applications. As a result, these methods face several challenges, such as covering recommendation scenarios, generating real-time responses, and handling concurrent requests. In this paper, we propose and implement a practical cloud API complementary recommendation service for mashup creation. To address the above challenges, we first propose a cloud API complementary recommendation framework named FICR, which exploits feature interactions to mine implicit complementarity and models complementarity from the mashup side and the target cloud API side for scenario coverage. Then, we conduct performance optimization via precoding and batch size tuning to optimize FICR for real-time responses. Finally, we design a minimum-connection load balancing algorithm with resource early warning and build a distributed system for concurrent requests. Experiments conducted on real-world datasets show that FICR outperforms state-of-the-art baseline models in complementary recommendation scenarios, and demonstrate that the implemented service meets the real-time and concurrency requirements. The service will serve as a practical tool to help developers during mashup creation.