SoK: Function-As-A-Service: From An Application Developer’s Perspective

In the past few years, FaaS has gained significant popularity and became a go-to choice for deploying cloud applications micro-services. with its unique ‘pay as you go’ pricing model key performance benefits over other services, offers an easy intuitive programming to build applications. this model, developer focuses on writing code of application while infrastructure management is left provider who responsible underlying resources, security, isolation, scaling application. Recently, number commercial open-source platforms have emerged, offering wide range features developers. paper, first, we present measurement studies demystifying various fea- tures that can help developers con- figuring their serverless Second, discuss distinct cost interesting use cases leverage performance, cost, or both aspects FaaS. Lastly, challenges may face developing We also state art solutions open problems.