Title
FaaSten your decisions: A classification framework and technology review of function-as-a-Service platforms
Abstract
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a cloud service model enabling developers to offload event-driven executable snippets of code. The execution and management of such functions becomes a FaaS provider’s responsibility, therein included their on-demand provisioning and automatic scaling. Key enablers for this cloud service model are FaaS platforms, e.g., AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, or OpenFaaS. At the same time, the choice of the most appropriate FaaS platform for deploying and running a serverless application is not trivial, as various organizational and technical aspects have to be taken into account. In this work, we present (i) a FaaS platform classification framework derived using a multivocal review and (ii) a technology review of the ten most prominent FaaS platforms, based on the proposed classification framework. We also present a FaaS platform selection support system, called FaaStener, which can help researchers and practitioners to choose the FaaS platform most suited for their requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.jss.2021.110906
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Serverless,Function-as-a-Service,FaaS,Platform,Classification framework,Technology review
Journal
175
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0164-1212
3
0.42
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vladimir Yussupov152.18
Jacopo Soldani219027.66
Uwe Breitenbücher356672.64
Antonio Brogi41708146.54
Frank Leyman541.80