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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged to reduce the deployment cost of running cloud applications compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). FaaS follows a serverless 'pay-as-you-go' computing model; it comes at a higher…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ali Raza , Zongshun Zhang , Nabeel Akhtar , Vatche Isahagian , Ibrahim Matta

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

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

In an overloaded FaaS cluster, individual worker nodes strain under lengthening queues of requests. Although the cluster might be eventually horizontally-scaled, adding a new node takes dozens of seconds. As serving applications are tuned…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Paweł Żuk , Bartłomiej Przybylski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Rapid adoption of the serverless (or Function-as-a-Service, FaaS) paradigm, pioneered by Amazon with AWS Lambda and followed by numerous commercial offerings and open source projects, introduces new challenges in designing the cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Ping-Min Lin , Alex Glikson

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Aitor Arjona , Pedro García-López , Enrique Molina-Giménez , Stepan Klymonchuk

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually offer composition services for such workflows, they do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless computing enables a new way of building and scaling cloud applications by allowing developers to write fine-grained serverless or cloud functions. The execution duration of a cloud function is typically short-ranging from a few…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Yuqi Fu , Li Liu , Haoliang Wang , Yue Cheng , Songqing Chen

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

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has a lot of potential as a computing model for fog environments comprising both cloud and edge nodes, as compute requests can be scheduled across the entire fog continuum in a fine-grained manner.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-24 David Bermbach , Jonathan Bader , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter , Lauritz Thamsen

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that frees developers from server management. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the most popular implementation of serverless computing, representing applications as event-driven and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xuanzhe Liu , Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Ding Li , Junkai Chen , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

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

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

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

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

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has a lot of potential as a computing model for fog environments comprising both cloud and edge nodes. When the request rate exceeds capacity limits at the edge, some functions need to be offloaded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-05 David Bermbach , Setareh Maghsudi , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter

Developing accurate and extendable performance models for serverless platforms, aka Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, is a very challenging task. Also, implementation and experimentation on real serverless platforms is both costly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei

FaaS allows an application to be decomposed into functions that are executed on a FaaS platform. The FaaS platform is responsible for the resource provisioning of the functions. Recently, there is a growing trend towards the execution of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Mohak Chadha , Anshul Jindal , Michael Gerndt

We present a framework for scheduling multifunction serverless applications over a hybrid public-private cloud. A set of serverless jobs is input as a batch, and the objective is to schedule function executions over the hybrid platform to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Anirban Das , Andrew Leaf , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for its ease-of-management and elasticity. However, optimizing scheduling for serverless functions remains challenging due to their dynamic and event-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhuangbin Chen , Juzheng Zheng , Zibin Zheng