Experiences and Lessons Learned from PHYSICS: A Framework for Cloud Development with FaaS

Abstract

The PHYSICS European project aims at developing a set of tools for application developers, system administrators and cloud providers that ease the development, deployment and optimization of resources in Function-as-a Service (FaaS) environments in the cloud. PHYSICS provides a visual development framework for abstracting cloud application development, an optimized platform level FaaS toolkit for the deployment of FaaS applications in the cloud and back-end optimization toolkit for local resource management. In this paper we present the main experiences and lessons learned during the project execution as well as some of the solutions adopted in the project.