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Cloud service provider propose services to insensitive customers to use their platform. Different services can achieve the same result at different cost. In this paper, we study the efficiency of a serverless architecture for running highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Samuel Lavoie , Anthony Garant , Fabio Petrillo

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

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Saman Akbari , Manfred Hauswirth

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 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

Serverless is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that facilitates developers to focus solely on the application logic rather than provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure. The inherent characteristics such as scalability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Kari Smolander

Serverless computing has seen rapid growth due to the ease-of-use and cost-efficiency it provides. However, function scheduling, a critical component of serverless systems, has been overlooked. In this paper, we take a first-principles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kostis Kaffes , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Christos Kozyrakis

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

The widespread deployment of large-scale, compute-intensive applications such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and big data is leading to convergence between cloud and high-performance computing infrastructures. Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Valerio Besozzi , Matteo Della Bartola , Patrizio Dazzi , Marco Danelutto

The promise of ultimate elasticity and operational simplicity of serverless computing has recently lead to an explosion of research in this area. In the context of data analytics, the concept sounds appealing, but due to the limitations of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ingo Müller , Renato Marroquín , Gustavo Alonso

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 serverless computing paradigm promises many desirable properties for cloud applications - low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Consequently, the paradigm has underwent rapid growth: there currently exist…

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

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 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

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that has been applied to various domains, including machine learning, scientific computing, video processing, etc. To develop serverless computing-based software applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu

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 platforms have attracted attention due to their promise of elasticity, low cost, and fast deployment. Instead of using a fixed virtual machine (VM) infrastructure, which can incur considerable costs to operate and run, serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Michael Wawrzoniak , Ingo Müller , Rodrigo Bruno , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

The topic of serverless computing has proved to be a controversial subject both within academic and industrial communities. Many have praised the approach to be a platform for a new era of computing and some have argued that it is in fact a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hossein Shafiei , Ahmad Khonsari , Payam Mousavi

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