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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

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

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

This review report discusses the cold start latency in serverless inference and existing solutions. It particularly reviews the ServerlessLLM method, a system designed to address the cold start problem in serverless inference for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Himel Ghosh

Serverless computing relieves developers from the burden of resource management, thus providing ease-of-use to the users and the opportunity to optimize resource utilization for the providers. However, today's serverless systems lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Prasoon Sinha , Kostis Kaffes , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

Resource elasticity is one of the key defining characteristics of the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless computing paradigm. While compute resources assigned to VM-sandboxed functions can be seamlessly adjusted on the fly, memory…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Orestis Lagkas Nikolos , Chloe Alverti , Stratos Psomadakis , Georgios Goumas , Nectarios Koziris

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

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

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

Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian

One key to enabling high-performance serverless computing is to mitigate cold-starts. Current solutions utilize a warm pool to keep function alive: a warm-start can be analogous to a CPU cache-hit. However, modern cache has multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Chu Qiao , Cong Wang , Zhenkai Zhang , Yuede Ji , Xing Gao

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Serverless computing relies on extreme multi-tenancy to remain economically viable, driving providers to rely on virtual machines (VMs) that ensure strong isolation and seamless ecosystem compatibility with the FaaS programming model.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 JooYoung Park , Kevin Nguetchouang , Jovan Stojkovic , Likun Zhang , Riccardo Mancini , Marco Cali , Dmitrii Ustiugov

Serverless is an increasingly popular choice for service architects because it can provide elasticity and load-based billing with minimal developer effort. A common and important use case is to compose serverless functions and cloud storage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sebastian Burckhardt , Chris Gillum , David Justo , Konstantinos Kallas , Connor McMahon , Christopher S. Meiklejohn

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide scalable and cost-efficient execution but suffer from increased latency and resource overheads in complex applications comprising multiple functions, particularly due to double billing when…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Niklas Kowallik , Natalie Carl , Leon Pöllinger , Wei Wang , Sharan Santhanam , David Bermbach

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

In-memory databases (IMDBs) are gaining increasing popularity in big data applications, where clients commit updates intensively. Specifically, it is necessary for IMDBs to have efficient snapshot performance to support certain special…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Liang Li , Guoren Wang , Gang Wu , Ye Yuan , Lei Chen , Xiang Lian

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

Predicting the next mobile app a user will launch is essential for proactive mobile services. Yet accurate prediction remains challenging in real-world settings, where user intent can shift rapidly within short sessions and user-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yunchi Yang , Longlong Li , Jianliang Wu , Cunquan Qu

The Serverless Computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of use and fine-grained billing. These features make it appealing for stateful application or serverless workflow. However, current serverless workflow systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xiaoxiang Shi , Chao Li , Zijun Li , Zihan Liu , Dianmo Sheng , Quan Chen , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo