Building a Pattern Language for Serverless Architectures

Serverless computing is a powerful paradigm that is becoming popular in the software engineering community. However, there is still a lack of knowledge in how to design and implement robust architectures using serverless services. To assist practitioners to take better informed decisions regarding serverless, we intend to create a useful tool for reasoning about serverless architecture. In this work, we present a novel serverless pattern language, as a means to such goal. The pattern language comprehends 28 patterns, classified among 5 groups: availability, orchestration and aggregation, communication, event management and authorization.