Building a scalable, interactive and event-driven computing platform in multi-cloud environments with dCache

This paper about the dCache storage platform and use cases for one of its latest features - storage events – is based on three talks given at the ISGC 2019, the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds in Teipei, Taiwan from April 1-5 2019. Building on a deployment in a multi-cloud environment, where dCache acts as a write-through and read-through cache with one single, distributed namespace, we introduce the reader to dCache storage events in both tracks: message queuing and server sent events. Turning to broader use case scenarios in cloud native applications, we address the role of dCache in the EOSCpilot project "Photon and Neutron Science Demonstrator", a deployment of Function-as-a-Service platforms for both, interactive and event-driven scientific computing