Cloudstate—Towards Stateful Serverless - Jonas Bonér & James Roper, Lightbend

Cloudstate—Towards Stateful Serverless - Jonas Bonér & James Roper, Lightbend

The Serverless experience is revolutionary and will grow to dominate the future of Cloud. FaaS however—with its ephemeral, stateless, and short-lived functions—is only the 1st step. It's great for processing-intensive, parallelizable workloads, but limited in use-cases, making it hard to impl general-purpose apps. What’s needed is a next-gen Serverless platform for general-purpose app dev for our new world of real-time data & event-driven systems. What’s missing is: ways to manage distributed state in a scalable & available fashion, long-lived stateful services, ways to co-locate data & processing, and options for data consistency. This talk will discuss challenges, requirements, and introduce you to our proposed solution: CloudState—an OSS project building next-gen Stateful Serverless on Akka, gRPC, Kubernetes & GraalVM, with client support for Go, JavaScript, Java, Swift and more.