Migrating from Monolithic to Serverless: A FinTech Case Study

Abstract

Serverless computing is steadily becoming the implementation paradigm of choice for a variety of applications, from data analytics to web applications, as it addresses the main problems with serverfull and monolithic architecture. In particular, it abstracts away resource provisioning and infrastructure management, enabling developers to focus on the logic of the program instead of worrying about resource management which will be handled by cloud providers. In this paper, we consider a document processing system used in FinTech as a case study and describe the migration journey from a monolithic architecture to a serverless architecture. Our evaluation results show that the serverless implementation significantly improves performance while resulting in only a marginal increase in cost.