ECO: Edge Continuum Orchestrator Framework for managing serverless chains across the Cloud-Edge Spectrum

The proliferation of smart devices has paved the way for the development of intelligent applications across various sectors. While Cloud Computing offers virtually limitless resources for deploying applications and handling data generated by these devices, emerging applications impose higher performance demands that surpass the capabilities of traditional Cloud Computing paradigms. This paper introduces the Edge Continuum Orchestrator (ECO), a novel framework aimed at addressing the deployment and management challenges of serverless applications across the Cloud Continuum to meet these critical application demands such as ultra-low latency, high transmission bandwidth and low energy consumption. Through the architectural design and real-world deployment of the ECO, this work investigates the performance impacts of Serverless applications deployed to a Edge-Cloud Continuum and the flexibility of ECO to accommodate these heterogeneous topologies.