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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…

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funcX is a distributed function as a service (FaaS) platform that enables flexible, scalable, and high performance remote function execution. Unlike centralized FaaS systems, funcX decouples the cloud-hosted management functionality from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Zhuozhao Li , Ryan Chard , Yadu Babuji , Ben Galewsky , Tyler Skluzacek , Kirill Nagaitsev , Anna Woodard , Ben Blaiszik , Josh Bryan , Daniel S. Katz , Ian Foster , Kyle Chard

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm, being adopted to develop a wide range of software applications. It allows developers to focus on the application logic in the granularity of function, thereby freeing developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xin Jin , Xuanzhe Liu

Serverless computing offers attractive scalability, elasticity and cost-effectiveness. However, constraints on memory, CPU and function runtime have hindered its adoption for data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML) workloads.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Niklas Kowallik , Joshua Adamek , Tobias Pfandzelter , Sergio Lucia , David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) enables developers to run serverless applications without managing operational tasks. In current FaaS platforms, both synchronous and asynchronous calls are executed immediately. In this paper, we present…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Trever Schirmer , Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

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

To optimally deploy their applications, users of Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds are required to evaluate the costs and performance of different combinations of cloud configurations to find out which combination provides the best service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner , Jurgen Cito , Harald Gall

Exploding data volumes and velocities, new computational methods and platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity demand new approaches to computation in the sciences. These new approaches must enable computation to be mobile, so that, for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ryan Chard , Yadu Babuji , Zhuozhao Li , Tyler Skluzacek , Anna Woodard , Ben Blaiszik , Ian Foster , Kyle Chard

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

Serverless computing paradigm has become more ingrained into the industry, as it offers a cheap alternative for application development and deployment. This new paradigm has also created new kinds of problems for the developer, who needs to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Gor Safaryan , Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

Classification-as-a-Service (CaaS) is widely deployed today in machine intelligence stacks for a vastly diverse set of applications including anything from medical prognosis to computer vision tasks to natural language processing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Mustafa Canim , Ashish Kundu , Josh Payne

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a form of cloud computing that relieves the user from the concern of hardware, software installation and management. It is an emerging business model that delivers software applications to the users through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-15 R. Swaminathan , K. Karnavel

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

Software as a service or (SaaS) is a new software development and deployment paradigm over the cloud and offers Information Technology services dynamically as "on-demand" basis over the internet. Trust is one of the fundamental security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Somesh Kumar Prajapati , Suvamoy Changder , Anirban Sarkar

Software as a service (SaaS) has recently enjoyed much attention as it makes the use of software more convenient and cost-effective. At the same time, the arising of users' expectation for high quality service such as real-time information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Feng-Lin Li , Chi-Hung Chi , Yue Wang , Cong Liu

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

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

Function as a Service (FaaS) is a new cloud technology with automated resource management. Different from traditional cloud computing, each FaaS cloud function can only run a fixed period of time before being decommissioned. Furthermore,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kim Long Ngo , Joydeep Mukherjee , Zhen Ming Jiang , Marin Litoiu