FaaSET

Abstract

Function-as-a-Service platforms require developers to use many different tools and services for function development, packaging, deployment, debugging, testing, orchestration of experiments, and analysis of results. Diverse toolchains are necessary due to the differences in how each platform is designed, the technologies they support, and the APIs they provide, leading to usability challenges for developers. To combine support for all of the tasks and tools into a unified workspace, we created the FaaS Experiment Toolkit (FaaSET). At the core of FaaSET is a Jupyter notebook development environment that enables developers to write functions, deploy them across multiple platforms, invoke and test them, automate experiments, and perform data analysis all in a single environment.