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Serverless computing, also known as Functions-as-a-Service, is a recent paradigm aimed at simplifying the programming of cloud applications. The idea is that developers design applications in terms of functions, which are then deployed on a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Saverio Giallorenzo , Ivan Lanese , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Stefano Pio Zingaro

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 promises convenient abstractions for developing and deploying functions that execute in response to events. In such Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, scheduling is an integral task, but current scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saman Akbari , Manfred Hauswirth

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a growing cloud computing paradigm that is expected to reduce the user cost of service over traditional serverful approaches. However, the environmental impact of FaaS has not received much attention. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Sirui Qi , Hayden Moore , Ninad Hogade , Dejan Milojicic , Cullen Bash , Sudeep Pasricha

Function-as-a-Service is a novel type of cloud service used for creating distributed applications and utilizing computing resources. Application developer supplies source code of cloud functions, which are small applications or application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Maciej Pawlik , Kamil Figiela , Maciej Malawski

Serverless computing is a buzzword that is being used commonly in the world of technology and among developers and businesses. Using the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model of serverless, one can easily deploy their applications to the cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Akash Puliyadi Jegannathan , Rounak Saha , Sourav Kanti Addya

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

Serverless computing has rapidly grown following the launch of Amazon's Lambda platform. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) a key enabler of serverless computing allows an application to be decomposed into simple, standalone functions that are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Anshul Jindal , Michael Gerndt , Mohak Chadha , Vladimir Podolskiy , Pengfei Chen

Serverless architectures, particularly the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, have become a cornerstone of modern cloud computing due to their ability to simplify resource management and enhance application deployment agility. However, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alexandre Savi Fayam Mbala Mouen , Jerry Lacmou Zeutouo , Vianney Kengne Tchendji

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide scalable and cost-efficient execution but suffer from increased latency and resource overheads in complex applications comprising multiple functions, particularly due to double billing when…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Niklas Kowallik , Natalie Carl , Leon Pöllinger , Wei Wang , Sharan Santhanam , David Bermbach

Since the appearance of Amazon Lambda in 2014, all major cloud providers have embraced the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, because of its enormous potential for a wide variety of applications. As expected (and also desired), the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pedro García López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Gerard París , Daniel Barcelona Pons , Álvaro Ruiz Ollobarren , David Arroyo Pinto

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

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

In FaaS, users invoke remote functions, which encapsulate service(s). These functions typically need to remotely access a persistent state via external services: this makes the paradigm less attractive in edge systems, especially for IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

Cloud Service Providers deliver their products in form of 'as-a-Service', which are typically categorized by the level of abstraction. This approach hides the implementation details and shows only functionality to the user. However, the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Roland Pellegrini , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber

Serverless computing offers an event driven pay-as-you-go framework for application development. A key selling point is the concept of no back-end server management, allowing developers to focus on application functionality. This is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Daniel Kelly , Frank G Glavin , Enda Barrett

Serverless computing has achieved widespread adoption, with over 70% of AWS organizations using serverless solutions [1]. Meanwhile, machine learning inference workloads increasingly migrate to Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chetan Pathade , Vinod Dhimam , Sheheryar Ahmad , Ilsa Lareb

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is increasingly popular in the software industry due to the implied cost-savings in event-driven workloads and its synergy with DevOps. To size an on-premise FaaS platform, it is important to estimate the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Alim Ul Gias , Giuliano Casale

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