The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Over the last five years, all major cloud platform providers have increased their serverless offerings. Many early adopters report significant benefits for serverless-based over traditional applications, and many companies are considering moving to serverless themselves. However, currently there exist only few, scattered, and sometimes even conflicting reports on when serverless applications are well suited and what the best practices for their implementation are. We address this problem in the present study about the state of serverless applications. We collect descriptions of 89 serverless applications from open-source projects, academic literature, industrial literature, and domain-specific feedback. We analyze 16 characteristics that describe why and when successful adopters are using serverless applications, and how they are building them. We further compare the results of our characterization study to 10 existing, mostly industrial, studies and datasets; this allows us to identify points of consensus across multiple studies, investigate points of disagreement, and overall confirm the validity of our results. The results of this study can help managers to decide if they should adopt serverless technology, engineers to learn about current practices of building serverless applications, and researchers and platform providers to better understand the current landscape of serverless applications.

Production

Software engineering

Open source software

Buildings

Logic gates

Systematics

Computer architecture

Författare

Simon Eismann

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Joel Scheuner

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Erwin Van Eyk

TU Delft

Maximilian Schwinger

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Johannes Grohmann

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Nikolas Herbst

Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

Cristina L. Abad

Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

Alexandru Iosup

TU Delft

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

0098-5589 (ISSN) 19393520 (eISSN)

Vol. 48 10 4152-4166

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning

Datorsystem

DOI

10.1109/TSE.2021.3113940

Relaterade dataset

The State of Serverless Applications: Collection,Characterization, and Community Consensus - Replication Package [dataset]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5185054

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2023-09-22