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Serverless or Serverful? A Pattern-Based Approach for Exploring Hosting Alternatives

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Service-Oriented Computing (SummerSOC 2022)

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Various cloud service models with different management requirements can be used for hosting a certain application component. For instance, more consumer-managed serverful options can be preferred if a component has special requirements related to deployment stack or scaling configuration management, whereas more provider-managed serverless alternatives can be used if no customization is needed. However, finding a suitable hosting variant based on the deployment stack or scaling configuration management requirements is cumbersome without clear guidelines. In our previous work, we introduced a set of Component Hosting Patterns that represent different management trade-offs and can help finding suitable hosting options for a component to be deployed. However, selecting the most appropriate pattern and exploring which concrete deployment alternatives can be used to technically realize the selected pattern was up to developers, thus, requiring considerable expertise in provider-specific offerings. Therefore, in this work, we (i) introduce four new complementary patterns representing abstract deployment stack customization and scaling configuration management decisions, which we (ii) combine with our Component Hosting Patterns in a new pattern language. Moreover, we (iii) introduce a method that supports application developers using the introduced pattern language as well as refining selected patterns to concrete technical deployment stacks. Finally, we (iv) show how the TOSCA modeling tool Eclipse Winery can be used to support our new method.

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    https://github.com/OpenTOSCA/pattern-based-deployment-modeling.

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    https://youtu.be/-GpGPS5Nc1Q.

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This work was partially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) project IAC2 (314720630).

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    Vladimir Yussupov, Uwe Breitenbücher, Lukas Harzenetter & Frank Leymann

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Yussupov, V., Breitenbücher, U., Brogi, A., Harzenetter, L., Leymann, F., Soldani, J. (2022). Serverless or Serverful? A Pattern-Based Approach for Exploring Hosting Alternatives. In: Barzen, J., Leymann, F., Dustdar, S. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. SummerSOC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1603. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18304-1_3

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