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Sequential Workflow in Production Serverless FaaS Orchestration Platform

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Today, serverless computing or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an excellent way to exploit cloud computing benefits due to its simplicity, billing, and innate elasticity. FaaS providers own the responsibility of server provisioning, administration, management and patching thus making developers less burdened and more productive. Serverless applications based on complex workflows involve multiple functions which have data dependencies on each other. This brings the concept of function orchestration in picture and makes it important in implementing any serverless application. In this context Amazon Web Services (AWS Step Function), International Business Machines (IBM) Cloud Function Sequences and Azure Durable Functions are currently available in market. In this paper, different sequential composition workflows like Reflexive, Fusion, Chaining, and Client Scheduled are implemented in AWS serverless platform and compared their performance in terms of execution duration. Successively, sequential workflows in different language runtime environments in AWS Step function and IBM Cloud Function Sequences are also analyzed. Experiments are also performed to observe the cold start behavior in AWS Lambda and (IBM) Cloud functions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Urmil Bharti & Deepali Bajaj

  2. Department of Computer Science, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Anita Goel

  3. Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

    S. C. Gupta

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    A. Pasumpon Pandian

  2. Department of Business Administration, The Gerald Schwartz School of Business, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

    Ram Palanisamy

  3. University of Applied Sciences, Aigaleo, Greece

    Klimis Ntalianis

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Bharti, U., Bajaj, D., Goel, A., Gupta, S.C. (2021). Sequential Workflow in Production Serverless FaaS Orchestration Platform. In: Pandian, A.P., Palanisamy, R., Ntalianis, K. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Information and Control Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1272. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8443-5_58

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