gFaaS: Enabling Generic Functions in Serverless Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10367v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:25:20 GMT
• Title: gFaaS: Enabling Generic Functions in Serverless Computing
• Authors: Mohak Chadha, Paul Wieland, Michael Gerndt
• Abstract summary: gF is a novel framework that facilitates holistic development and management of functions across diverse F platforms. Results from our experiments demonstrate that gF functions perform similarly to native platform-specific functions across various scenarios.
• Score: 0.1433758865948252
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, Serverless Computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has witnessed growing popularity across various application domains. FaaS enables an application to be decomposed into fine-grained functions that are executed on a FaaS platform. It offers several advantages such as no infrastructure management, a pay-per-use billing policy, and on-demand fine-grained autoscaling. However, despite its advantages, developers today encounter various challenges while adopting FaaS solutions that reduce productivity. These include FaaS platform lock-in, support for diverse function deployment parameters, and diverse interfaces for interacting with FaaS platforms. To address these challenges, we present gFaaS, a novel framework that facilitates the holistic development and management of functions across diverse FaaS platforms. Our framework enables the development of generic functions in multiple programming languages that can be seamlessly deployed across different platforms without modifications. Results from our experiments demonstrate that gFaaS functions perform similarly to native platform-specific functions across various scenarios. A video demonstrating the functioning of gFaaS is available from https://youtu.be/STbb6ykJFf0.

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