Project Info

Portals is a framework written in Scala under the Apache 2.0 license for stateful serverless applications. It provides a Scala and a JavaScript API, its source code is available on GitHub.

At its core, Portals unifies the Distributed Dataflow Streaming Model and the Actor Model, providing unparalleled flexibility and data-parallel processing capabilities with strong guarantees. The framework’s programming model is tailored for edge stateful serverless processing, and provides the following key features:

1. Multi-Dataflow Applications. Multiple stateful dataflow streaming pipelines can dynamically be composed together on top of atomic streams, a transactional type of data streams.
2. Inter-Dataflow Services. The Portal abstraction binds dataflow pipelines together to create and expose reusable services. This enables a request-reply type of communication between pipelines by providing serverless access to remote operator states on top of a continuation-style execution.
3. Decentralized Cloud and Local Execution. The decentralized runtime can be executed on cloud and edge devices, whilst still providing end-to-end exactly-once processing guarantees.

Portals is a research project developed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden.

For more information on the project, please visit the project website or the GitHub repository.