tAPP OpenWhisk: A serverless platform for topology-aware allocation priority policies

Giuseppe De Palma; Saverio Giallorenzo; Jacopo Mauro; Matteo Trentin; Gianluigi Zavattaro

doi:10.1016/j.scico.2025.103349

tAPP OpenWhisk: A serverless platform for topology-aware allocation priority policies

Giuseppe De Palma^*, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Matteo Trentin, Gianluigi Zavattaro

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Abstract

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm offers a serverless approach that abstracts the management of underlying infrastructure, enabling developers to focus on application logic. However, leveraging infrastructure-aware features can further optimize serverless performance. We present a software prototype that enhances Apache OpenWhisk serverless platform with a novel architecture incorporating tAPP (topology-aware Allocation Priority Policies), a declarative language designed for specifying topology-aware scheduling policies. Through a case study involving distributed data access across multiple cloud regions, we show that tAPP can significantly reduce latency and minimizes performance variability compared to the standard OpenWhisk implementation.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	103349
Tidsskrift	Science of Computer Programming
Vol/bind	247
ISSN	0167-6423
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2025.103349
Status	Udgivet - jan. 2026

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