Itera Dev Meetup - Function as a Service - Serverless architecture
- 1. Function as a Service Serverless architecture )(xf
- 2. Calculate reports per project for each customer.
- 3. Log errors from frontend application. ?
- 5. - Inefficient - Costly - Difficult operations - Control over data - Costly with higher demands - Dynamic scalability not seamless - Easier creation of dedicated hosts - Vendor and technology lock-in - Difficult migration of projects that are not cloud-ready well- written - Flexible and scalable Dedicated server IaaS PaaS Server(full?) - transition to cloud
- 6. Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.
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- 8. Log errors from frontend application. )(xf
- 9. Suitable for… • Event-driven applications • Messages from IoT devices • Pay-per-click services • Stateless applications • Applications APIs • Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) • Scheduled events • Parsing data at certain time of the day
- 10. Not suitable for… • Long running operations • Need to be broken down • Stateful applications • State must be stored separately
- 12. It’s all about the architecture Kinesis Lambda DynamoDB
- 13. Pitfall 1: Vendor control and lock-in • Limits on execution time • Monitoring, health checks defined by providers )(xf< 2 min
- 14. Pitfall 2: Thin backend, thick clients • Lots of logic needs to be handled by client • For multiple clients, it could mean a lot of repetition )(xf
- 15. Pitfall 3: Startup latency (in JVM) • If there are longer times between executions or the calls are infrequent )(xf
- 16. Pitfall 4: Look ma’, no operations! )(xf …also, no server optimizations
- 17. 🤔 Pitfall 5: Development in browser? Upload
- 18. https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ 128MB memory 30 000 000 requests 200ms / request $11.63*monthly
- 19. Stateless, single purpose, event driven Good in combination with other vendor-specific PaaS resources Pay only for total execution time of function Service providers supporting cloud functions: Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, Azure functions, IBM OpenWhisk,… Tooling is not great Develop either in browser or prepare for a lot of boilerplate Honorary mention: Serverless Framework, Spring Cloud Functions )(xf
- 20. Thank you for your attention Pavol Rajzák )(xf
Editor's Notes
- #2: Topic transitions… New technologies aren’t really new New (old) technologies are being utilized for new, modern purposes Cloud is a first-class citizen when it comes to developing new software Many possibilities on how to utilize this computing power, not everything is suitable Let’s look at some real life scenarios…
- #5: Typical web application (client/server) setup: Client sends HTTP request to REST API Application receives request through a server socket Application processes the request and sends HTTP response with body (data)
- #6: In-house server hosting Only feasible for big companies, e.g. U.S. Steel IaaS You can use service providers Or you can develop your own infrastructure PaaS Also CaaS (containers) and SaaS
- #7: Connection of Serverless and FaaS – Serverless is utilizing FaaS model
- #10: Event-sourcing – AWS Lambda can be used to process events, like processing Kinesis stream (lambda polls the stream)
- #12: Showcase: AWS Console Create Lambda function You can test the function directly Upload new version or save it directly in browser API Gateway, IAM Roles
- #13: Kinesis stream receives data, the lambda processes the stream logging errors, DynamoDB is used to store the errors. You develop your application not using specific features, but abstractions (e.g. Event sourcing, Function composition, CQRS)
- #15: User state (session) management Shared data
- #16: Also valid for interpreted languages, application is passivated after certain time of inactivity, it may be up in few milliseconds, but you have to bear it in mind.
- #17: It is a black box, to which you don’t have any access
- #18: https://serverless.com/
- #19: Watch out for pricing used in combination with other services. You may pay a lot for the least denominator. Take into account: API Gateway, IAM access, S3 Bucket, DynamoDB, etc.
- #20: Spring Cloud Functoins - Dave Syer @ OpenSlava 2017