4.2 Serverless Analysys

Structure

• Limits
• Main Obstacles
• The Future
• Fallacies and Pitfalls
• Conclusions

Bibliography

(i.e., material that you must read to study the lesson)

• "Beginning Serverless Computing", Maddie Stigler, Apress Chap. 1
• "Cloud programming simplified: a Berkeley view on Serverless computing" EECS-2019-3 Sect. 4 (only 4.1, 4.2)-5

Other useful information and other links

(i.e., material that you may want to read to deepen the comprehension)

• A (long) video on Coca-cola solution at AWS re-invent 2016, https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/videos/video-lambda-coca-cola/
• Blog by Coca-cola at https://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/vending-innovation-at-sxsw

Recap Questions

(recap questions that can help you revise the material you studied and that may be also asked at the oral exam 😊 )

• What are the limitations of Serverless Computing?
• What is vendor lock-in and why is it important
• Why you cannot use FaaS for long-running applications?
• Why “cold start” could be a problem and how can you try to ameliorate it?
• Why sharing the infrastructure may be a problem with Serverless Computing?
• What are the abstraction challenges of Serverless Computing?
• What is the resource requirements abstraction challenge for Serverless computing?
• What is data dependency challenge for Serverless Computing?
• Why Ephemeral storage is needed for Serverless Computing?
• Why is an efficient coordination/communication signaling service needed for Serverless Computing?
• What is the challenge of minimizing startup time?
• What are some fallacies and pitfalls for Serverless Computing?
• Does Serverless Computing have unpredictable cost or are there ways to allow to somehow predict it?
• Is porting easy in Serverless Computing?