Title
Triggerflow: Trigger-based Orchestration of Serverless Workflows
Abstract
As more applications are being moved to the Cloud thanks to serverless computing, it is increasingly necessary to support native life cycle execution of those applications in the data center. But existing systems either focus on short-running workflows (like IBM Composer or Amazon Express Workflows) or impose considerable overheads for synchronizing massively parallel jobs (Azure Durable Functions, Amazon Step Functions, Google Cloud Composer). None of them are open systems enabling extensible interception and optimization of custom workflows. We present Triggerflow: an extensible Trigger-based Orchestration architecture for serverless workflows built on top of Knative Eventing and Kubernetes technologies. We demonstrate that Triggerflow is a novel serverless building block capable of constructing different reactive schedulers (State Machines, Directed Acyclic Graphs, Workflow as code). We also validate that it can support high-volume event processing workloads, auto-scale on demand and transparently optimize scientific workflows.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3401025.3401731
DEBS '20: The 14th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems Montreal Quebec Canada July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-8028-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
García-López Pedro100.34
Arjona Aitor200.34
Sampe Josep300.34
Aleksander Slominski457874.21
Villard Lionel500.34