Serverless Applications: Why, When, and How?
Journal article, 2021

Serverless computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as Why do so many companies adopt serverless?, When are serverless applications well suited?, and How are serverless applications currently implemented? To address these questions, we analyze 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, industrial sources, academic literature, and scientific computing—the most extensive study to date.

Author

Simon Eismann

University of Würzburg

Joel Scheuner

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Erwin Van Eyk

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Maximilian Schwinger

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Johannes Grohmann

University of Würzburg

Nikolas Herbst

University of Würzburg

Cristina L. Abad

Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

Alexandru Iosup

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

IEEE Software

0740-7459 (ISSN) 19374194 (eISSN)

Vol. 38 1 32-39

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

Information Science

Computer Science

DOI

10.1109/MS.2020.3023302

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Latest update

1/21/2021