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

Jake Grogan; Connor Mulready; James McDermott; Martynas Urbanavicius; Murat Yilmaz; Yalemisew Abgaz; Andrew McCarren; Silvana Togneri MacMahon; Vahid Garousi; Peter Elger; Paul Clarke

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_5

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

Jake Grogan
, Connor Mulready
, James McDermott
, Martynas Urbanavicius
, Murat Yilmaz
, Yalemisew Abgaz
, Andrew McCarren
, Silvana Togneri MacMahon
, Vahid Garousi
, Peter Elger
, Paul Clarke^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 27th European Conference, EuroSPI 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Murat Yilmaz, Paul Clarke, Jörg Niemann, Richard Messnarz
Publisher	Springer
Pages	58-75
ISBN (Print)	9783030564407
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_5
Publication status	Early online date - 10 Aug 2020
Event	27th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2020 - Düsseldorf, Germany Duration: 09 Sept 2020 → 11 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1251 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	27th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2020
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Düsseldorf
Period	09/09/2020 → 11/09/2020

Keywords

AWS Lambda
Cloud computing
Constraints
Functions-as-a-Service
Google Cloud Functions
Infrastructures
Microsoft Azure
Scalability
Serverless

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science
General Mathematics

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Grogan, J., Mulready, C., McDermott, J., Urbanavicius, M., Yilmaz, M., Abgaz, Y., McCarren, A., MacMahon, S. T., Garousi, V., Elger, P., & Clarke, P. (2020). A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers. In M. Yilmaz, P. Clarke, J. Niemann, & R. Messnarz (Eds.), Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 27th European Conference, EuroSPI 2020, Proceedings (pp. 58-75). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1251 CCIS). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_5

Grogan, Jake ; Mulready, Connor ; McDermott, James et al. / A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers. Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 27th European Conference, EuroSPI 2020, Proceedings. editor / Murat Yilmaz ; Paul Clarke ; Jörg Niemann ; Richard Messnarz. Springer, 2020. pp. 58-75 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers. / Grogan, Jake; Mulready, Connor; McDermott, James et al.
Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 27th European Conference, EuroSPI 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Murat Yilmaz; Paul Clarke; Jörg Niemann; Richard Messnarz. Springer, 2020. p. 58-75 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1251 CCIS).

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Grogan J, Mulready C, McDermott J, Urbanavicius M, Yilmaz M, Abgaz Y et al. A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers. In Yilmaz M, Clarke P, Niemann J, Messnarz R, editors, Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 27th European Conference, EuroSPI 2020, Proceedings. Springer. 2020. p. 58-75. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). Epub 2020 Aug 10. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_5

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

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