FaaS, or Function-as-a-Service, is a considerable application engineering trend under observation by the Service Tooling research initiative of the Service Prototyping Lab at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Yesterday, the lab’s semi-regular open-for-all evening seminar series, Future Cloud Applications, centered around tools for managing the growing FaaS ecosystem. While the open source tools prototypically produced through the initiative are primarily of interest to Swiss software application engineers and cloud providers, the research challenges continuously uncovered by the work are more fundamental and encompass some harder nuts to crack in dedicated research projects. This blog reflects on what has been achieved already and what needs to be accomplished in the next years.
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