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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

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…

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Serverless computing, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki

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 matured into an effective execution model for edge cloud environments, enabling function level decomposition, demand driven scaling, and workflow execution across stable, well provisioned infrastructure. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hadi Tabatabaee Malazi , Reza Farahani , Nitinder Mohan , Schahram Dustdar

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 increased use of micro-services to build web applications has spurred the rapid growth of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) or serverless computing platforms. While FaaS simplifies provisioning and scaling for application developers, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Arjun Singhvi , Kevin Houck , Arjun Balasubramanian , Mohammed Danish Shaikh , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

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

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…

To support parallelizable serverless workflows in applications like media processing, we have prototyped a distributed scheduler called Raptor that reduces both the end-to-end delay time and failure rate of parallelizable serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Kevin Exton , Maria Read

With the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency computing, cloud computing, especially serverless computing, has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years, attracting numerous research attention. Meanwhile,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hanzhe Li , Bingchen Lin , Mengyuan Xu

Serverless computing, in particular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model, has recently shown to be effective for running large-scale computations. However, little attention has been paid to highly-parallel applications with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Gerard Finol , Gerard París , Pedro García-López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

Recently, serverless computing has gained recognition as a leading cloud computing method. Providing a solution that does not require direct server and infrastructure management, this technology has addressed many traditional model problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohsen Ghorbian , Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Serverless computing has emerged as a promising alternative to infrastructure- (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS)cloud platforms for applications with ample parallelism and intermittent activity. Serverless promises greater resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Shannon Joyner , Michael MacCoss , Christina Delimitrou , Hakim Weatherspoon

Serverless computing with cloud functions is quickly gaining adoption, but constrains programmers with its limited support for state management. We introduce a shared file system for cloud functions. It offers familiar POSIX semantics while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Johann Schleier-Smith , Leonhard Holz , Nathan Pemberton , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Data processing systems are increasingly deployed in the cloud. While monolithic systems run fully on virtual servers, recent systems embrace cloud infrastructure and utilize the disaggregation of compute and storage to scale them…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Thomas Bodner , Theo Radig , David Justen , Daniel Ritter , Tilmann Rabl

With the proliferation of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks, and the programming languages that they use, along with operations of data loading, transformation, preparation and mining, ML model development is becoming a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Anirban Bhattacharjee , Yogesh Barve , Shweta Khare , Shunxing Bao , Aniruddha Gokhale , Thomas Damiano

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

Serverless computing has gained a strong traction in the cloud computing community in recent years. Among the many benefits of this novel computing model, the rapid auto-scaling capability of user applications takes prominence. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Anupama Mampage , Shanika Karunasekera , Rajkumar Buyya