This section describes the architecture of NFaaS.

Service components

Functionally, a NFaaS service has two main components:

The NFaaS architecture can be spoken in terms of building blocks that cooperate to produce these two functions per service.

NFaaS components

NFaaS is composed of 4 major blocks, each a providing the various functionalities required to provide and manage services. The figure below serves as a summary:

The four components, and their functions are:

Factoring in these platforms and the physical infrastructure that they run on produces the following schematic (showing two NFaaS services composed together):

 

 


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