Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?

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العنوان: Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?
المؤلفون: Johnson, Jacoby, Kharel, Subash, Mannamplackal, Alan, Abdelfattah, Amr S., Cerny, Tomas
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Emerging Technologies
الوصف: Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google's Service Weaver aims to simplify the complexities associated with implementing cloud-native systems by introducing the concept of a single modular binary composed of agent-like components, thereby abstracting away the microservice architecture notion of individual services. While Service Weaver presents a promising approach to streamline the development of cloud-native applications and addresses nearly all significant aspects of conventional cloud-native systems, there are existing tradeoffs affecting the overall functionality of the system. Notably, Service Weaver's straightforward implementation and deployment of components alleviate the overhead of constructing a complex microservice architecture. However, it is important to acknowledge that certain features, including separate code bases, routing mechanisms, resiliency, and security, are presently lacking in the framework.
Comment: This paper is accepted for publication at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09357
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2404.09357
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv