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Serverless query processing has become increasingly popular due to its advantages, including automated resource management, high elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing. For users who are not system experts, serverless query processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haoqiong Bian , Dongyang Geng , Haoyang Li , Yunpeng Chai , Anastasia Ailamaki

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for developing applications at the function level, known as serverless functions. Due to the highly dynamic execution environment, multiple identical runs of the same serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Federica Sarro , Shangguang Wang

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 computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as 'Why do so many companies adopt serverless?', 'When are serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Simon Eismann , Joel Scheuner , Erwin van Eyk , Maximilian Schwinger , Johannes Grohmann , Cristina L. Abad , Alexandru Iosup

The Internet is responsible for accelerating growth in several fields such as digital media, healthcare, the military. Furthermore, the Internet was founded on the principle of allowing clients to communicating with servers. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jacob John , Shashank Gupta

Serverless computing has recently experienced significant adoption by several applications, especially Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In serverless computing, rather than deploying and managing dedicated virtual machines, users are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tarek Elgamal , Atul Sandur , Klara Nahrstedt , Gul Agha

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive paradigm due to the efficiency of development and the ease of deployment without managing any underlying infrastructure. Nevertheless, serverless computing approaches face numerous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Emilian Simion , Yuandou Wang , Hsiang-ling Tai , Uraz Odyurt , Zhiming Zhao

This paper explores resource allocation in serverless cloud computing platforms and proposes an optimization approach for autoscaling systems. Serverless computing relieves users from resource management tasks, enabling focus on application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Harold Ship , Evgeny Shindin , Chen Wang , Diana Arroyo , Asser Tantawi

Context. While in serverless computing, application resource management and operational concerns are generally delegated to the cloud provider, ensuring that serverless applications meet their performance requirements is still a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Simon Eismann , Diego Elias Costa , Lizhi Liao , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Weiyi Shang , André van Hoorn , Samuel Kounev

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that has been applied to various domains, including machine learning, scientific computing, video processing, etc. To develop serverless computing-based software applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu

Recently, academics and the corporate sector have paid attention to serverless computing, which enables dynamic scalability and an economic model. In serverless computing, users only pay for the time they actually use resources, enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muhammed Golec , Guneet Kaur Walia , Mohit Kumar , Felix Cuadrado , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Steve Uhlig

Serverless computing, in particular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model, has recently shown to be effective for running large-scale computations. However, little attention has been paid to highly-parallel applications with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Gerard Finol , Gerard París , Pedro García-López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

The increasing use of hardware processing accelerators tailored for specific applications, such as the Vision Processing Unit (VPU) for image recognition, further increases developers' configuration, development, and management overhead.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Sebastian Werner , Trever Schirmer

Public cloud serverless platforms have attracted a large user base due to their high scalability, plug-and-play deployment model, and pay-per-use billing. However, compared to virtual machines and container hosting services, modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Changyuan Lin , Yuanzhi Ma , Mohammad Shahrad

Serverless architectures organized around loosely-coupled function invocations represent an emerging design for many applications. Recent work mostly focuses on user-facing products and event-driven processing pipelines. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Youngbin Kim , Jimmy Lin

Making serverless computing widely applicable requires detailed performance understanding. Although contemporary benchmarking approaches exist, they report only coarse results, do not apply distributed tracing, do not consider asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Joel Scheuner , Simon Eismann , Sacheendra Talluri , Erwin van Eyk , Cristina Abad , Philipp Leitner , Alexandru Iosup

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

End-users can get functions-as-a-service from serverless platforms, which promise lower hosting costs, high availability, fault tolerance, and dynamic flexibility for hosting individual functions known as microservices. Machine learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Prerana Khatiwada , Pranjal Dhakal

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

Serverless computing has emerged as a new execution model which gained a lot of attention in cloud computing thanks to the latest advances in containerization technologies. Recently, serverless has been adopted at the edge, where it can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Mounir Bensalem , Francisco Carpio , Admela Jukan