The Impact of Serverless Computing on IoT Application Development: A Study on Cold Start Latency and State Management Challenges

Serverless computing, notably Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), serves as an appropriate execution model for Internet of Things (IoT) applications because of its scalability and pay-as-you-go model.Paradigm shifts like this come with their own sets of challenges.This paper examines serverless computing's IoT application development impact on "cold start" and state management as primary challenges and considers their impacts.The analysis documents performance degradation suffered by ergonomically IoT-sensitive systems and correlates that suffering with the scale-to-zero principle of serverless economics.In addition, the inherent statelessness of FaaS complicates the design of stateful IoT applications.The focus of this research is on mitigation techniques and architectural patterns used to address the challenges and real-world case studies are analyzed to demonstrate that the model is effective with careful implementation.