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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…

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FaaS (Function as a Service) allows developers to upload and execute code in the cloud without managing servers. FaaS offerings from leading public cloud providers are based on system microVM or application container technologies such as…

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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…

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High performance is needed in many computing systems, from batch-managed supercomputers to general-purpose cloud platforms. However, scientific clusters lack elastic parallelism, while clouds cannot offer competitive costs for…

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With the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, Serverless Computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has witnessed growing popularity across various application domains. FaaS enables an application to be decomposed into fine-grained…

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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…

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Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the execution scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent developments demonstrate the benefits of using…

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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Angel C. Chavez-Moreno , Cristina L. Abad

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged as a new cloud computing paradigm. It promises high utilization of data center resources through allocating resources on demand at per-function request granularity. High cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yue Tan , David Liu , Nanqinqin Li , Amit Levy

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…

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Serverless execution and most notably the Function as a Service (FaaS) model got quite some attention during the recent years. As of today, all commercial and open source implementations follow the common practice of keeping the execution…

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Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), enables a new way of building and scaling applications by allowing users to deploy fine-grained functions while providing fully-managed resource provisioning and auto-scaling. Custom…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ao Wang , Shuai Chang , Huangshi Tian , Hongqi Wang , Haoran Yang , Huiba Li , Rui Du , Yue Cheng

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become an increasingly popular way for users to deploy their applications without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. However, existing FaaS platforms rely on remote storage to maintain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Francisco Romero , Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Íñigo Goiri , Pragna Gopa , Paul Batum , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Rodrigo Fonseca , Christos Kozyrakis , Ricardo Bianchini

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

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide applications with resources that are highly elastic, quick to instantiate, accounted at fine granularity, and without the need for explicit runtime resource orchestration. This…

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

Offloading computation from user devices to nodes with processing capabilities at the edge of the network is a major trend in today's network/service architectures. At the same time, serverless computing has gained a huge traction among the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

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

Serverless computing enables developers to deploy code without managing infrastructure, but suffers from cold start overhead when initializing new function instances. Existing solutions such as "keep-alive" or "pre-warming" are costly and…

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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) struggles with burst-parallel jobs due to needing multiple independent invocations to start a job. The lack of a group invocation primitive complicates application development and overlooks crucial aspects like…

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