Unveiling issues and their causes in open-source serverless framework, an empirical study
Nguyen, Khac Tam (2024)
Diplomityö
2024
School of Engineering Science, Tietotekniikka
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024031110659
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024031110659
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This empirical research - master thesis identifies and understands the problem underlying serverless frameworks' deployment and use, with an increased area of interest focused on the most popular open-source project, Serverless Framework. The master thesis motivation is brought about due to the adoption of serverless computing, which promises to cut the cost and provide scaling but also brings about other new challenges such as cold starts, security vulnerabilities, and application complexities amidst distributed applications.
This draws a grand total of over 1,809 issues analyzed from the context of the major problematics represented by these categories of topics. Some of the examples include networking, update and installation problems, performance problems, GUI concerns, and much more. This largely adds up to the contribution of the serverless architectures into different constituencies of the network communication types of problems. On top of that, there also lies an issue related to updating and installation in a large margin. This points at the factor of complexity that can bind compatibility and configuration of thousands of serverless services. One of the problems is performance: resource spending and speed increase.
Here is the cause that included architectural limitation, technical debt, design complexities, challenges in serverless edge computing, security concern, resource limitation, and challenges of monitoring and debugging the serverless application. Some of the issues are serverless-agnostic, while there are others specifically tied to The Serverless Framework.
This thesis contributes by detailing the usual issues and challenges surrounding the serverless frameworks, with even more detail directed at the serverless framework itself. The project provides a guideline and avenues that may be of help to developers, institutions, and academicians in treading within the serverless landscape, which in turn will lead to improved performance, security, and scale of applications. Future work will include a detailed cause analysis of the issues and the development of solutions that will help in mitigating the problems.
This draws a grand total of over 1,809 issues analyzed from the context of the major problematics represented by these categories of topics. Some of the examples include networking, update and installation problems, performance problems, GUI concerns, and much more. This largely adds up to the contribution of the serverless architectures into different constituencies of the network communication types of problems. On top of that, there also lies an issue related to updating and installation in a large margin. This points at the factor of complexity that can bind compatibility and configuration of thousands of serverless services. One of the problems is performance: resource spending and speed increase.
Here is the cause that included architectural limitation, technical debt, design complexities, challenges in serverless edge computing, security concern, resource limitation, and challenges of monitoring and debugging the serverless application. Some of the issues are serverless-agnostic, while there are others specifically tied to The Serverless Framework.
This thesis contributes by detailing the usual issues and challenges surrounding the serverless frameworks, with even more detail directed at the serverless framework itself. The project provides a guideline and avenues that may be of help to developers, institutions, and academicians in treading within the serverless landscape, which in turn will lead to improved performance, security, and scale of applications. Future work will include a detailed cause analysis of the issues and the development of solutions that will help in mitigating the problems.