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Serverless computing is gaining traction as an attractive model for the deployment of a multitude of workloads in the cloud. Designing and building effective resource management solutions for any computing environment requires extensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anupama Mampage , Rajkumar Buyya

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that has found widespread adoption across various online workloads. It allows software engineers to develop cloud applications as a set of functions (called serverless functions).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Jianshu Zhao , Federica Sarro , Haodi Ping , Ying Zhang , Shangguang Wang , Xuanzhe Liu

Elastic scaling is one of the central benefits provided by serverless platforms, and requires that they scale resource up and down in response to changing workloads. Serverless platforms scale-down resources by terminating previously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kalev Alpernas , Aurojit Panda , Mooly Sagiv

With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverless is more than ten years old, there are different platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Trever Schirmer , Aris Wiegand , Lucca di Benedetto , Linus Gustafsson , Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless computing, also known as Functions-as-a-Service, is a recent paradigm aimed at simplifying the programming of cloud applications. The idea is that developers design applications in terms of functions, which are then deployed on a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Saverio Giallorenzo , Ivan Lanese , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Stefano Pio Zingaro

Serverless computing (also known as functions as a service) is a new cloud computing abstraction that makes it easier to write robust, large-scale web services. In serverless computing, programmers write what are called serverless…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Abhinav Jangda , Donald Pinckney , Yuriy Brun , Arjun Guha

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

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

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 has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

Serverless computing is an emerging service model in distributed computing systems. The term captures cloud-based event-driven distributed application design and stems from its completely resource-transparent deployment model, i.e.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Manuel Stein

Serverless computing offers elasticity unmatched by conventional server-based cloud infrastructure. Although modern data processing systems embrace serverless storage, such as Amazon S3, they continue to manage their compute resources as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Thomas Bodner , Daniel Ritter , Martin Boissier , Tilmann Rabl

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

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive deployment option for cloud applications in recent times. The unique features of this computing model include, rapid auto-scaling, strong isolation, fine-grained billing options and access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Anupama Mampage , Shanika Karunasekera , Rajkumar Buyya

Although historically the term serverless was also used in the context of peer-to-peer systems, it is more frequently associated with the architectural style for developing cloud-native applications. From the developer's perspective,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Vladimir Yussupov , Ghareeb Falazi , Uwe Breitenbücher , Frank Leymann

In recent years, there has been a surge in the adoption of serverless computing due to the ease of deployment, attractive pay-per-use pricing, and transparent horizontal auto-scaling. At the same time, infrastructure advancements such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Paul Castro , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

Serverless computing platforms currently rely on basic pricing schemes that are static and do not reflect customer feedback. This leads to significant inefficiencies from a total utility perspective. As one of the fastest-growing cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Vipul Gupta , Soham Phade , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

We describe a system for serverless computing where users, programs, and the underlying platform share a common representation of a computation: a deterministic procedure, run in an environment of well-specified data or the outputs of other…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhan Deng , Akshay Srivatsan , Sebastian Ingino , Francis Chua , Yasmine Mitchell , Matthew Vilaysack , Keith Winstein

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

Analytical performance models are very effective in ensuring the quality of service and cost of service deployment remain desirable under different conditions and workloads. While various analytical performance models have been proposed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei