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The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda) executing event-triggered code snippets (i.e., functions). Many studies that empirically evaluate…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner

The proliferation of edge devices and the rapid growth of IoT data have called forth the edge computing paradigm. Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a promising computing paradigm to realize edge computing. This paper explores the feasibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Runyu Jin , Qirui Yang , Ming Zhao

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Vladimir Yussupov , Jacopo Soldani , Uwe Breitenbücher , Antonio Brogi , Frank Leymann

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

Following the increasing interest and adoption of FaaS systems, benchmarking frameworks for determining non-functional properties have also emerged. While existing (microbenchmark) frameworks only evaluate single aspects of FaaS platforms,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Martin Grambow , Tobias Pfandzelter , Luk Burchard , Carsten Schubert , Max Zhao , David Bermbach

As particle accelerator control systems evolve in complexity and scale, the need for responsive, scalable, and cost-effective computational infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers an alternative to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Jaikar , J. Diamond , A. Tiradani , B. Harrison

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

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds have become the predominant underlying infrastructure for the operation of modern and smart technology. IaaS clouds have proven to be useful for multiple reasons such as reduced costs, increased…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Nivedhitha Duggi , Masoud Rafiei , Mohsen Amini Salehi

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

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

Elasticity is one of key features of cloud computing. Elasticity allows Software as a Service (SaaS) applications' provider to reduce cost of running applications. In large SaaS applications that are developed using service-oriented…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

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

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ju Long , Hung-Ying Tai , Shen-Ta Hsieh , Michael Juntao Yuan

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

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

Function as a Service (FaaS) permits cloud customers to deploy to cloud individual functions, in contrast to complete virtual machines or Linux containers. All major cloud providers offer FaaS products (Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Pawel Zuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

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

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a new wave of edge computing due to the need to process data on the edge, closer to where it is being produced and attempting to move away from a cloud-centric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Hamza Javed , Adel N. Toosi , Mohammad S. Aslanpour