| dc.description.abstract | In the age of modern technology, a new
paradigm, Serverless, emerges in the world of cloud computing
with which it benefits developers to solely focus on the main
objective instead of the maintenance of the infrastructure. This
study helps developers and readers alike to have an insight into
the current state of serverless software development. For the
purpose of the research, an abundant amount of open-source
serverless projects in Github has been analyzed with the help
of Github bots, crawlers and Code Factor to gather data on
common use cases, the complexity of the project and
architectural patterns. Primary programming languages used
to build serverless components are Javascript, Python, and C#.
Furthermore, the common use cases identified in serverless
projects are API, Frameworks, Communication, and data
processing via Computation. The majority of analyzed projects
were deemed dependent on the large vendors, primarily
Amazon (72.03%) and Microsoft (21.21%). Only 3.96% of OSS
projects were using open source frameworks. However, further
studies are required as serverless applications will keep
growing bigger in the near future. | sv |
