Authors:
Jacoby Johnson
1
;
Subash Kharel
1
;
Alan Mannamplackal
1
;
Amr Abdelfattah
1
and
Tomas Cerny
2
Affiliations:
1
Computer Science of Baylor University, Waco, Texas, U.S.A.
;
2
Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Keyword(s):
Service Weaver, Cloud-Native Systems, Microservices, Modular Binary, Cloud Computing.
Abstract:
Cloud-Native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google’s Service Weaver aims to simplify the complexities associated with implementing cloud-native systems by introducing the concept of a single modular binary composed of agent-like components, thereby abstracting away the microservice architecture notion of individual services. While Service Weaver presents a promising approach to streamline the development of cloud-native applications and addresses nearly all significant aspects of conventional cloud-native systems, there are existing tradeoffs affecting the overall functionality of the system. Notably, Service Weaver’s straightforward implementation and deployment of components alleviate the overhead of constructing a complex microservice architecture. However, it is important to acknowledge that ce
rtain features, including separate code bases, routing mechanisms, resiliency, and security, are presently lacking in the framework.
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