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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

The increased use of micro-services to build web applications has spurred the rapid growth of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) or serverless computing platforms. While FaaS simplifies provisioning and scaling for application developers, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Arjun Singhvi , Kevin Houck , Arjun Balasubramanian , Mohammed Danish Shaikh , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

HPC and Cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Torsten Hoefler , Marcin Copik , Pete Beckman , Andrew Jones , Ian Foster , Manish Parashar , Daniel Reed , Matthias Troyer , Thomas Schulthess , Dan Ernst , Jack Dongarra

The function-as-a-service (FaaS) paradigm is envisioned as the next generation of cloud computing systems that mitigate the burden for cloud-native application developers by abstracting them from cloud resource management. However, it does…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for a pay-as-you-go model more suited to variable and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Pengyu Zhou , Konstantin Taranov , Torsten Hoefler

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

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 abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

Serverless computing with cloud functions is quickly gaining adoption, but constrains programmers with its limited support for state management. We introduce a shared file system for cloud functions. It offers familiar POSIX semantics while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Johann Schleier-Smith , Leonhard Holz , Nathan Pemberton , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Serverless clouds promise efficient scaling, reduced toil and monetary costs. Yet, serverless-ing a complex, legacy application might require major refactoring and thus is risky. As a case study, we use Airflow, an industry-standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Filip Mikina , Pawel Zuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

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…

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that can reduce costs for cloud providers and their customers. However, serverless cloud platforms have stringent performance requirements (due to the need to execute short…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 S. Qi , H. Moore , N. Hogade , D. Milojicic , C. Bash , S. Pasricha

Function as a Service (FaaS) is a new cloud technology with automated resource management. Different from traditional cloud computing, each FaaS cloud function can only run a fixed period of time before being decommissioned. Furthermore,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kim Long Ngo , Joydeep Mukherjee , Zhen Ming Jiang , Marin Litoiu

Serverless edge computing adopts an event-based paradigm that provides back-end services on an as-used basis, resulting in efficient resource utilization. To improve the end-to-end latency and revenue, service providers need to optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Chen , Manuel Herrera , Ge Zheng , Liqiao Xia , Zhengyang Ling , Jiangtao Wang

Existing serverless data analytics systems rely on external storage services like S3 for data shuffling and communication between cloud functions. While this approach provides the elasticity benefits of serverless computing, it incurs…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Gang Liao , Amol Deshpande , Daniel J. Abadi

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Niklas Kowallik , Joshua Adamek , Tobias Pfandzelter , Sergio Lucia , David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a cloud service model enabling developers to offload event-driven executable snippets of code. The execution and management of such functions becomes a FaaS provider's responsibility, hereby included their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Vladimir Yussupov , Jacopo Soldani , Uwe Breitenbücher , Antonio Brogi , Frank Leymann

Serverless computing has emerged as a very popular cloud technology, together with its companion Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model enabling invocations of stateless functions from clients. An evolution of serverless is now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows to directly submit function code to a cloud provider without the burden of managing infrastructure resources. Each cloud provider establishes execution time limits to their FaaS offerings, which impose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Rodrigo Landa Andraca , Mahdi Zareei

This paper releases and analyzes a month-long trace of 85 billion user requests and 11.9 million cold starts from Huawei's serverless cloud platform. Our analysis spans workloads from five data centers. We focus on cold starts and provide a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Artjom Joosen , Ahmed Hassan , Martin Asenov , Rajkarn Singh , Luke Darlow , Jianfeng Wang , Qiwen Deng , Adam Barker