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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

With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverless is more than ten years old, there are different platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Trever Schirmer , Aris Wiegand , Lucca di Benedetto , Linus Gustafsson , Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless computing significantly alters software development by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling rapid, modular, event-driven deployments. Despite its benefits, the distinct characteristics of serverless functions, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Amine Barrak , Emna Ksontini , Ridouane Atike , Fehmi Jaafar

Elasticity is one of key features of cloud computing. Elasticity allows Software as a Service (SaaS) applications' provider to reduce cost of running applications. In large SaaS applications that are developed using service-oriented…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

Serverless computing has emerged as a compelling new paradigm of cloud computing models in recent years. It promises the user services at large scale and low cost while eliminating the need for infrastructure management. On cloud provider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Lucia Schuler , Somaya Jamil , Niklas Kühl

The metadata service (MDS) sits on the critical path for distributed file system (DFS) operations, and therefore it is key to the overall performance of a large-scale DFS. Common "serverful" MDS architectures, such as a single server or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Benjamin Carver , Runzhou Han , Jingyaun Zhang , Mai Zheng , Yue Cheng

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

Serverless computing, with its operational simplicity and on-demand scalability, has become a preferred paradigm for deploying workflow applications. However, resource allocation for workflows, particularly those with branching structures,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Long Chen , Xinshuai Hua , Jinquan Zhang , Wenshuai Li , Xiaoping Li , Shijie Guo

This work presents HotSwap, a novel provider-side cold-start optimization for serverless computing. This optimization reduces cold-start time when booting and loading dependencies at runtime inside a function container. Previous research…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rui Li , Devesh Tiwari , Gene Cooperman

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

In recent years, the serverless paradigm has been widely adopted to develop cloud applications, as it enables building scalable solutions while delegating operational concerns such as infrastructure management and resource provisioning to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Giorgio Natale Buttiglieri , Luca De Martini , Alessandro Margara

Serverless computing -- an emerging cloud-native paradigm for the deployment of applications and services -- represents an evolution in cloud application development, programming models, abstractions, and platforms. It promises a real…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Paul Castro , Vatche Ishakian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

Serverless computing is a popular cloud deployment paradigm where developers implement applications as workflows of functions that invoke each other. Cloud providers automatically scale function instances on demand and forward workflow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Shyam Jesalpura , Mert Bora Alper , Michal Baczun , Rustem Feyzkhanov , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot , Marios Kogias

Serverless computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has revolutionized cloud computing by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling dynamic resource allocation. This paper examines the performance and compatibility of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ehsan Ataie , Mohammadreza Pooshani , Hossein Aqasizade

Serverless computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm, with a significant adoption rate among cloud customers. While this model offers advantages such as abstraction from the deployment and resource scheduling, it also poses limitations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Larissa Schmid , Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Laurin Brandner , Anne Koziolek , Torsten Hoefler

Serverless computing has grown in popularity in recent years, with an increasing number of applications being built on Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms. By default, FaaS platforms support retry-based fault tolerance, but this is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Vikram Sreekanti , Chenggang Wu , Saurav Chhatrapati , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Jose M. Faleiro

Enterprises are driving towards less cost, more availability, agility, managed risk - all of which is accelerated towards Cloud Computing. Cloud is not a particular product, but a way of delivering IT services that are consumable on demand,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Arokia Paul Rajan , Shanmugapriyaa

Existing serverless workflow orchestration systems are predominantly designed for a single-cloud FaaS system, leading to vendor lock-in. This restricts performance optimization, cost reduction, and availability of applications. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rui Li , Jianfei Liu , Zhilin Yang , Peichang Shi , Guodong Yi , Huaimin Wang

Elasticity is a key property of cloud computing. However, elasticity is offered today at the granularity of virtual machines, which take tens of seconds to start. This is insufficient to react to load spikes and sudden failures in latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Michael Wawrzoniak , Rodrigo Bruno , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

The Function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing model has recently seen significant growth especially for highly scalable, event-driven applications. The easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient fine-grained billing of FaaS is highly attractive to big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yuze Li , Kevin Assogba , Abhijit Tripathy , Moiz Arif , M. Mustafa Rafique , Ali R. Butt , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos