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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

Cloud-based serverless computing systems, either public or privately provisioned, aim to provide the illusion of infinite resources and abstract users from details of the allocation decisions. With the goal of providing a low cost and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Chavit Denninnart

It is increasingly common to outsource network functions (NFs) to the cloud. However, no cloud providers offer NFs-as-a-Service (NFaaS) that allows users to run custom NFs. Our work addresses how a cloud provider can offer NFaaS. We use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Arjun Singhvi , Junaid Khalid , Aditya Akella , Sujata Banerjee

Serverless computing has emerged as a market-dominant paradigm in modern cloud computing, benefiting both cloud providers and tenants. While service providers can optimize their machine utilization, tenants only need to pay for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qi Pei , Yipeng Wang , Seunghee Shin

Today data is often scattered among billions of resource-constrained edge devices with security and privacy constraints. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a viable solution to learn a global model while keeping data private, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Sijie Cheng , Jingwen Wu , Yanghua Xiao , Yang Liu , Yang Liu

The event-driven and elastic nature of serverless runtimes makes them a very efficient and cost-effective alternative for scaling up computations. So far, they have mostly been used for stateless, data parallel and ephemeral computations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Arda Aytekin , Mikael Johansson

Serverless technologies, also known as FaaS (Function as a Service), are promoted as solutions that provide dynamic scalability, speed of development, cost-per-consumption model, and the ability to focus on the code while taking attention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Juan Mera Menéndez , Jose Emilio Labra Gayo , Enrique Riesgo Canal , Aitor Echevarría Fernández

Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

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

Serverless computing is a cloud execution model where developers run code, and the server management is handled by the cloud provider. Serverless computing is increasingly gaining popularity as more systems adopt it to enhance scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hasini Sumalee Perera , Zadia Codabux , Fabio Palomba

In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nakhat Syeda , Harsh Shah , Rajvinder Singh , Suraj Jaju , Sumedha Kumar , Gourav Chhabra , Maria Spichkova

Cloud computing is an emerging platform of service computing designed for swift and dynamic delivery of assured computing resources. Cloud computing provide Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) for guaranteed uptime availability for enabling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-13 T. Vengattaraman , P. Dhavachelvan , R. Baskaran

We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

Machine Learning (ML) models are widely used across various domains, including medical diagnostics and autonomous driving. To support this growth, cloud providers offer ML services to ease the integration of ML components in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Hadil Ben Amor , Manel Abdellatif , Taher Ghaleb

Serverless clouds promise efficient scaling, reduced toil and monetary costs. Yet, serverless-ing a complex, legacy application might require major refactoring and thus is risky. As a case study, we use Airflow, an industry-standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Filip Mikina , Pawel Zuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

Serverless computing has emerged as a compelling new paradigm of cloud computing models in recent years. It promises the user services at large scale and low cost while eliminating the need for infrastructure management. On cloud provider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Lucia Schuler , Somaya Jamil , Niklas Kühl

Serverless computing has gained popularity in edge computing due to its flexible features, including the pay-per-use pricing model, auto-scaling capabilities, and multi-tenancy support. Complex Serverless-based applications typically rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ke Luo , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Serverless computing and stream processing represent two dominant paradigms for event-driven data processing, yet both make assumptions that render them inefficient for short-running, lightweight, and unpredictable streams that require…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Natalie Carl , Niklas Kowallik , Constantin Stahl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Machine learning is now a central part of how modern systems are built and used, powering everything from personalized recommendations to large-scale business analytics. As its role grows, organizations are facing new challenges in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sowjanya Karanam , Jayanth Bhargav

Serverless computing offers a pay-per-use model with high elasticity and automatic scaling for a wide range of applications. Since cloud providers abstract most of the underlying infrastructure, these services work similarly to black-boxes.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Michael Kiener , Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

Due to the high scalability, infrastructure management, and pay-per-use pricing model, serverless computing has been adopted in a wide range of applications such as real-time data processing, IoT, and AI-related workflows. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Cynthia Marcelino , Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic