Migrating from Microservices to Serverless: An IoT Platform Case Study

Mohak Chadha, Victor Pacyna, Anshul Jindal, Jianfeng Gu, Michael Gerndt

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Abstract

Microservice architecture is the common choice for developing cloud applications these days since each individual microservice can be independently modified, replaced, and scaled. As a result, application development and operating cloud infrastructure were bundled together into what is now commonly called DevOps. However, with the increasing popularity of the serverless computing paradigm and its several advantages such as no infrastructure management, a pay-per-use billing policy, and on-demand fine-grained autoscaling, there is a growing interest in utilizing FaaS and server-less CaaS technologies for refactoring microservices-based applications. Towards this, we migrate a complex IoT platform application onto OpenWhisk (OW) and Google Cloud Run (GCR). We comprehensively evaluate the performance of the different deployment strategies, i.e., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)-Standard, OW, and GCR for the IoT platform using different load testing scenarios. Results from our experiments show that while GKE standard performs best for most scenarios, GCR is always cheaper wrt costs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWoSC 2022 - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, Part of Middleware 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages19-24
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450399272
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Nov 2022
Event8th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, WoSC 2022 - Part of Middleware 2022 - Quebec, Canada
Duration: 7 Nov 2022 → …

Publication series

NameWoSC 2022 - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, Part of Middleware 2022

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, WoSC 2022 - Part of Middleware 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec
Period7/11/22 → …

Keywords

  • CaaS
  • FaaS
  • container-as-a-service
  • function-as-a-service
  • microservices
  • performance analysis
  • serverless

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