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Serverless computing -- an emerging cloud-native paradigm for the deployment of applications and services -- represents an evolution in cloud application development, programming models, abstractions, and platforms. It promises a real…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Paul Castro , Vatche Ishakian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

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

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 offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing, which place its autoscaling potential at odds with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Joseph M. Hellerstein , Jose Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Johann Schleier-Smith , Vikram Sreekanti , Alexey Tumanov , Chenggang Wu

Machine learning (ML) is an important part of modern data science applications. Data scientists today have to manage the end-to-end ML life cycle that includes both model training and model serving, the latter of which is essential, as it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuncheng Wu , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Guoyu Hu , Meihui Zhang , Yeow Meng Chee , Beng Chin Ooi

Serverless computing, commonly offered as Function-as-a-Service, was initially designed for small, lean applications. However, there has been an increasing desire to run larger, more complex applications (what we call bulky applications) in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhiyuan Guo , Zachary Blanco , Junda Chen , Jinmou Li , Zerui Wei , Bili Dong , Ishaan Pota , Mohammad Shahrad , Harry Xu , Yiying Zhang

Next generation technologies such as smart healthcare, self-driving cars, and smart cities require new approaches to deal with the network traffic generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as efficient programming models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Quoc Lap Trieu , Bahman Javadi , Jim Basilakis , Adel N. Toosi

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

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

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 query processing has become increasingly popular due to its auto-scaling, high elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It allows cloud data warehouse (or lakehouse) users to focus on data analysis without the burden of managing…

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

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as a prominent cloud paradigm, enabling developers to focus solely on application logic without the burden of managing servers or underlying infrastructure. Public serverless repositories have become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Eduard Marin , Jinwoo Kim , Alessio Pavoni , Mauro Conti , Roberto Di Pietro

Serverless cloud computing handles virtually all the system administration operations needed to make it easier for programmers to use the cloud. It provides an interface that greatly simplifies cloud programming, and represents an evolution…

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

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 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 provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

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

Serverless computing has gained popularity due to its cost efficiency, ease of deployment, and enhanced scalability. However, in serverless environments, servers are initiated only after receiving a request, leading to increased response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Vincent Hsieh , Jerry Chou

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

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas