Laminar: Dataflow Programming for Serverless IoT Applications
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Tyler Ekaireb, Lukas Brand, Nagarjun Avaraddy, 
Markus Mock, 
Chandra Krintz, Rich WolskiAuthors Info & Claims
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Serverless computing has increased in popularity as a programming model for "Internet of Things" (IoT) applications that amalgamate IoT devices, edge-deployed computers and systems, and the cloud to interoperate. In this paper, we present Laminar - a dataflow program representation for distributed IoT application programming - and describe its implementation based on a network-transparent, event-driven, serverless computing infrastructure that uses append-only log storage to store all program state. We describe the initial implementation of Laminar, discuss some useful properties we obtained by leveraging log-based data structures and triggered computations of the underlying serverless runtime, and illustrate its performance and reliability characteristics using a set of benchmark applications.
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