Cloudstate - Towards Stateful Serverless

Explore the future of serverless computing in this 27-minute conference talk by Jonas Bonér and James Roper from Lightbend. Dive into the limitations of current Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models and discover the need for a next-generation serverless platform capable of handling general-purpose application development. Learn about the challenges and requirements for managing distributed state, implementing long-lived stateful services, and ensuring data consistency in real-time, event-driven systems. Get introduced to CloudState, an open-source project aiming to build a stateful serverless platform using Akka, gRPC, Kubernetes, and GraalVM, with client support for multiple programming languages including Go, JavaScript, Java, and Swift.