Serverless Prototype

This is a prototype of a serverless platform built in C#/.NET using Microsoft Azure and Windows containers. The goals of this implementation are to improve the performance of serverless platforms and explore platform designs while maintaining a simple implementation.

Implementation Overview

The platform depends upon Azure Storage for data persistence and for its messaging layer. Besides Azure Storage services, the implementation is comprised of two components: a web service which exposes the platform's public REST API, and a worker service which manages and executes function containers. The web service discovers available workers through a messaging layer consisting of various Azure Storage queues. Function metadata is stored in Azure Storage tables, and function code is stored in Azure Storage blobs.

A in-depth discussion of the current platform and its limitations is available here.

Performance Measurements

Performance measurements of this prototype and other serverless platform was taken using a performance tool created to compare serverless offerings. Example performance measurements are available there, and in the paper linked above.

Getting Started

Coming soon :)