Skeet: Towards a Lightweight Serverless Framework Supporting Modern AI-Driven App Development

TL;DR

Skeet is a lightweight serverless framework designed to support modern AI-driven app development, enabling easier integration of AI and cloud features for developers with minimal AI expertise.

Contribution

The paper introduces Skeet, a novel framework that facilitates cloud-native, AI-integrated app development with minimal developer effort, addressing limitations of traditional frameworks.

Findings

Skeet enables easy AI integration into apps.

The framework supports modern cloud-based architectures.

Initial evaluation shows positive developer feedback.

Abstract

The field of web and mobile software frameworks is relatively mature, with a large variety of tools in different languages that facilitate traditional app development where data in a relational database is displayed and modified. Our position is that many current frameworks became popular during single server deployment of MVC architecture apps, and do not facilitate modern aspects of app development such as cloud computing and the incorporation of emerging technologies such as AI. We present a novel framework which accomplishes these purposes, Skeet, which was recently released to general use, alongside an initial evaluation. Skeet provides an app structure that reflects current trends in architecture, and tool suites that allow developers with minimal knowledge of AI internals to easily incorporate such technologies into their apps and deploy them.