Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-Native Systems?

Jacoby Johnson, Subash Kharel, Alan Mannamplackal, Amr Abdelfattah, Tomas Cerny

2024

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 certain features, including separate code bases, routing mechanisms, resiliency, and security, are presently lacking in the framework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Johnson J., Kharel S., Mannamplackal A., Abdelfattah A. and Cerny T. (2024). Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-Native Systems?. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER; ISBN 978-989-758-701-6, SciTePress, pages 167-175. DOI: 10.5220/0012624500003711

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer24,
author={Jacoby Johnson and Subash Kharel and Alan Mannamplackal and Amr Abdelfattah and Tomas Cerny},
title={Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-Native Systems?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER},
year={2024},
pages={167-175},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012624500003711},
isbn={978-989-758-701-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER
TI - Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-Native Systems?
SN - 978-989-758-701-6
AU - Johnson J.
AU - Kharel S.
AU - Mannamplackal A.
AU - Abdelfattah A.
AU - Cerny T.
PY - 2024
SP - 167
EP - 175
DO - 10.5220/0012624500003711
PB - SciTePress