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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

"Application-platform co-design" refers to the phenomenon of new platforms being created in response to changing application needs, followed by application design and development changing due to the emergence (and the specifics,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sebastian Werner , Stefan Tai

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

Serverless computing has become a new trending paradigm in cloud computing, allowing developers to focus on the development of core application logic and rapidly construct the prototype via the composition of independent functions. With the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinfeng Wen , Yi Liu , Zhenpeng Chen , Junkai Chen , Yun Ma

The widespread deployment of large-scale, compute-intensive applications such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and big data is leading to convergence between cloud and high-performance computing infrastructures. Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Valerio Besozzi , Matteo Della Bartola , Patrizio Dazzi , Marco Danelutto

Although historically the term serverless was also used in the context of peer-to-peer systems, it is more frequently associated with the architectural style for developing cloud-native applications. From the developer's perspective,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Vladimir Yussupov , Ghareeb Falazi , Uwe Breitenbücher , Frank Leymann

In recent years, there has been a surge in the adoption of serverless computing due to the ease of deployment, attractive pay-per-use pricing, and transparent horizontal auto-scaling. At the same time, infrastructure advancements such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Paul Castro , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nakhat Syeda , Harsh Shah , Rajvinder Singh , Suraj Jaju , Sumedha Kumar , Gourav Chhabra , Maria Spichkova

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 is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

Serverless computing has become very popular today since it largely simplifies cloud programming. Developers do not need to longer worry about provisioning or operating servers, and they pay only for the compute resources used when their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pedro García-López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Simon Shillaker , Peter Pietzuch , David Breitgand , Gil Vernik , Pierre Sutra , Tristan Tarrant , Ana Juan Ferrer

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive deployment option for cloud applications in recent times. The unique features of this computing model include, rapid auto-scaling, strong isolation, fine-grained billing options and access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Anupama Mampage , Shanika Karunasekera , Rajkumar Buyya

Cloud service provider propose services to insensitive customers to use their platform. Different services can achieve the same result at different cost. In this paper, we study the efficiency of a serverless architecture for running highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Samuel Lavoie , Anthony Garant , Fabio Petrillo

Serverless computing is an emerging Cloud service model. It is currently gaining momentum as the next step in the evolution of hosted computing from capacitated machine virtualisation and microservices towards utility computing. The term…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Manuel Stein

Serverless functions are a cloud computing paradigm where the provider takes care of resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Simon Eismann , Long Bui , Johannes Grohmann , Cristina L. Abad , Nikolas Herbst , Samuel Kounev

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

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

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

Current serverless offerings give users a limited degree of flexibility for configuring the resources allocated to their function invocations by either coupling memory and CPU resources together or providing no knobs at all. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Muhammad Bilal , Marco Canini , Rodrigo Fonseca , Rodrigo Rodrigues

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