Visual-Textual Framework for Serverless Computation: A Luna Language Approach
Piotr Moczurad, Maciej Malawski · 2018
As serverless technologies are emerging as a breakthrough in the cloud computing industry, the lack of proper tooling is becoming apparent. The model of computation that the serverless is imposing is as flexible as it is hard to manage and grasp. We present a novel approach towards serverless computing that tightly integrates it with the visual-textual, functional programming language: Luna. This way we are hoping to achieve the clarity and cognitive ease of visual solutions while retaining the flexibility and expressive power of textual programming languages. We created a proof of concept of the Luna Serverless Framework in which we extend the Luna standard library and we leverage the language features to create an intuitive API for serverless function calls using AWS Lambda and to call external functions implemented in JavaScript.