A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers

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Grogan J., Muheady C., McDermott J., Urbanavicius M., Yilmaz M., Abgaz Y., ...Daha Fazla

27th International Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI), Düsseldorf, Almanya, 9 - 11 Eylül 2020, cilt.1251, ss.58-75 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1251
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_5
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Düsseldorf
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.58-75
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Functions-as-a-Service, Infrastructures, Serverless, Cloud computing, Scalability, Constraints, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Functions
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this paper, we provide a multivocal literature review of Function as a Service (FaaS) infrastructures. FaaS is an important, emerging category of cloud computing, which requires that software applications are designed and deployed using distributed, highly-decoupled service-based architectures, one example of which is the microservices architecture paradigm. FaaS is associated with on-demand functionality and allows developers to build applications without the overhead associated with server management. As such, FaaS is a type of serverless provisioning model wherein a provider dynamically manages and allocates machine resources, with the developers deploying source code into a production environment. This research provides an analysis of scalability, cost, execution times, integration support, and the constraints associated with FaaS services provided by several vendors: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. We discuss the implications of the findings for software developers.