TY - GEN

T1 - Kotless: A serverless framework for kotlin

AU - Tankov, Vladislav

AU - Golubev, Yaroslav

AU - Bryksin, Timofey

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - Recent trends in Web development demonstrate an increased interest in serverless applications, i.e. applications that utilize computational resources provided by cloud services on demand instead of requiring traditional server management. This approach enables better resource management while being scalable, reliable, and cost-effective. However, it comes with a number of organizational and technical difficulties which stem from the interaction between the application and the cloud infrastructure, for example, having to set up a recurring task of reuploading updated files. In this paper, we present Kotless-a Kotlin Serverless Framework. Kotless is a cloud-agnostic toolkit that solves these problems by interweaving the deployed application into the cloud infrastructure and automatically generating the necessary deployment code. This relieves developers from having to spend their time integrating and managing their applications instead of developing them. Kotless has proven its capabilities and has been used to develop several serverless applications already in production. Its source code is available at https://github.com/JetBrains/kotless, a tool demo can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMSakPNl3TY.

AB - Recent trends in Web development demonstrate an increased interest in serverless applications, i.e. applications that utilize computational resources provided by cloud services on demand instead of requiring traditional server management. This approach enables better resource management while being scalable, reliable, and cost-effective. However, it comes with a number of organizational and technical difficulties which stem from the interaction between the application and the cloud infrastructure, for example, having to set up a recurring task of reuploading updated files. In this paper, we present Kotless-a Kotlin Serverless Framework. Kotless is a cloud-agnostic toolkit that solves these problems by interweaving the deployed application into the cloud infrastructure and automatically generating the necessary deployment code. This relieves developers from having to spend their time integrating and managing their applications instead of developing them. Kotless has proven its capabilities and has been used to develop several serverless applications already in production. Its source code is available at https://github.com/JetBrains/kotless, a tool demo can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMSakPNl3TY.

KW - Cloud

KW - Framework

KW - Kotless

KW - Kotlin

KW - Serverless

KW - Web

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/888cfa8d-ba0c-3b41-8a69-681a3d548eb5/

U2 - 10.1109/ASE.2019.00114

DO - 10.1109/ASE.2019.00114

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781728125084

T3 - Proceedings - 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019

SP - 1110

EP - 1113

BT - Proceedings - 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

ER -