Techniques for creating a distributed application flow from a set of rules are provided. The techniques include creating a control-flow graph for each rule, creating one or more dependency links between two or more rules, partitioning a resulting graph, wherein the resulting graph comprises one or more control-flow graphs and one or more dependency links, into one or more operators by determining an optimal set of one or more cuts through the resulting graph such that a cost function is minimized, and generating stream processing flow code from the partitioned graph.