Object Abstraction Streamlines Edge-Cloud-Native Development with OaaS

Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn (doctoral dissertation) presents the Object-as-a-Service (OaaS) paradigm and the Oparaca prototype to unify resource, state, and workflow management for cloud-native and edge applications.

• Main announcement: The dissertation introduces Object-as-a-Service (OaaS) and the Oparaca prototype as a unified approach for cloud-native development, claiming negligible overhead and state-of-the-art scalability; it also presents SLA-driven OaaS for declarative management of non-functional requirements (availability, consistency, latency).
• Study details & technical results: Empirical grounding includes 21 practitioner interviews, a 39-participant developer study, and NSF I-Corps customer discovery (101 interviews across 86 organizations); the work extends to edge with OaaS-IoT / EdgeWeaver, reporting 31% faster task completion and 44.5% reduction in lines of code versus traditional FaaS. The dissertation was submitted to the University of North Texas and is available on arXiv:2512.22534 (DOI via DataCite pending).