Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andy Linfoot

Debi P Mishra

Sudarshan Raghunathan

Damon Robert Hachmeister

Parry Husbands

C James MacLennan

A platform that provides a way to automatically compose and execute even complex workflows without writing code is described. A set of pre-built functional building blocks can be provided. The building blocks perform data transformation and machine learning functions. The functional blocks have well known plug types. The building blocks can be composed build complex compositions. Input and output files are converted to a standard data type so that modules are pluggable.

Composing and executing workflows made up of functional pluggable building blocks

An intermediate representation of a workflow that comprises software functions may be generated to efficiently perform data marshalling. The workflow is analyzed, including identifying that a first software function is implemented in a first language, a second software function is implemented in a second language, and a third software function is not explicitly implemented in an implementation language. Factors associated with the software functions are analyzed, including implementation languages of the software functions. Based on the analysis of the factors, an implementation language is assigned to the third software function that comprises either the first or second language. Based on the analysis of the workflow, an intermediate representation of the workflow is generated that represents each of the plurality of software functions using declarative language. Generating the intermediate representation includes configuring the third software function to be implemented in the assigned implementation language upon compiling the intermediate representation.

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