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Serverless computing increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their application into functions, which can be error-prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Trever Schirmer , Joel Scheuner , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Cloud-based serverless computing systems, either public or privately provisioned, aim to provide the illusion of infinite resources and abstract users from details of the allocation decisions. With the goal of providing a low cost and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Chavit Denninnart

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged to reduce the deployment cost of running cloud applications compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). FaaS follows a serverless 'pay-as-you-go' computing model; it comes at a higher…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ali Raza , Zongshun Zhang , Nabeel Akhtar , Vatche Isahagian , Ibrahim Matta

Serverless computing that runs functions with auto-scaling is a popular task execution pattern in the cloud-native era. By connecting serverless functions into workflows, tenants can achieve complex functionality. Prior researches adopt the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Zijun Li , Chuhao Xu , Quan Chen , Jieru Zhao , Chen Chen , Minyi Guo

Function-as-a-Service is a popular cloud programming model that supports developers by abstracting away most operational concerns with automatic deployment and scaling of applications. Due to the high level of abstraction, developers rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Trever Schirmer , Nils Japke , Sofia Greten , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

Cloud Service Providers deliver their products in form of 'as-a-Service', which are typically categorized by the level of abstraction. This approach hides the implementation details and shows only functionality to the user. However, the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Roland Pellegrini , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber

Serverless computing is a cloud execution model where developers run code, and the server management is handled by the cloud provider. Serverless computing is increasingly gaining popularity as more systems adopt it to enhance scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hasini Sumalee Perera , Zadia Codabux , Fabio Palomba

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and "serverless" cloud computing are becoming increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do minimal I/O and communication. We argue that the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Vikram Sreekanti , Chenggang Wu , Xiayue Charles Lin , Johann Schleier-Smith , Jose M. Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Alexey Tumanov

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud paradigm that offers an elastic and scalable allocation of computing resources with pay-as-you-go billing. In the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, applications comprise short-lived…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Wei Qiu , Marcin Copik , Yun Wang , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

In this paper we propose a method for analyzing services deployed in serverless platforms. These services typically consists of orchestrated functions that can exhibit complex and non-conservative information flows due to the interaction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Gianluca Reali , Mauro Femminella

We describe a system for serverless computing where users, programs, and the underlying platform share a common representation of a computation: a deterministic procedure, run in an environment of well-specified data or the outputs of other…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhan Deng , Akshay Srivatsan , Sebastian Ingino , Francis Chua , Yasmine Mitchell , Matthew Vilaysack , Keith Winstein

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a type of serverless computing that allows developers to write and deploy code as individual functions, which can be triggered by specific events or requests. FaaS platforms automatically manage the…

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become a central paradigm in serverless cloud computing, yet optimizing FaaS deployments remains challenging. Using function fusion, multiple functions can be combined into a single deployment unit, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Niklas Kowallik , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to efficiently use the large pools of unused memory and increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Marcin Copik , Marcin Chrapek , Larissa Schmid , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

The topic of serverless computing has proved to be a controversial subject both within academic and industrial communities. Many have praised the approach to be a platform for a new era of computing and some have argued that it is in fact a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hossein Shafiei , Ahmad Khonsari , Payam Mousavi

This review paper synthesizes the latest research on performance optimization strategies for serverless applications deployed on AWS Lambda. By examining recent studies, we highlight the challenges, solutions, and best practices for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Mohamed Lemine El Bechir , Cheikh Sad Bouh , Abobakr Shuwail

Serverless computing has gained a significant traction in recent times because of its simplicity of development, deployment and fine-grained billing. However, while implementing complex services comprising databases, file stores, or more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Bishakh Chandra Ghosh , Sourav Kanti Addya , Nishant Baranwal Somy , Shubha Brata Nath , Sandip Chakraborty , Soumya K Ghosh

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has raised a growing interest in how to "tame" serverless computing to enable domain-specific use cases such as data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML), to name a few. Recently, several systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Pablo Gimeno Sarroca , Marc Sánchez-Artigas