Abstract:Function as a Service (FaaS) permits cloud customers to deploy to cloud individual functions, in contrast to complete virtual machines or Linux containers. All major cloud providers offer FaaS products (Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Serverless); there are also popular open-source implementations (Apache OpenWhisk) with commercial offerings (Adobe I/O Runtime, IBM Cloud Functions). A new feature of FaaS is function composition: a function may (sequentially) call another function, which, in turn, … Show more
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