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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a cloud computing paradigm offering an event-driven execution model to applications. It features serverless attributes by eliminating resource management responsibilities from developers, and offers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Function as a Service (FaaS) has been gaining popularity as a way to deploy computations to serverless backends in the cloud. This paradigm shifts the complexity of allocating and provisioning resources to the cloud provider, which has to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Mohammad Shahrad , Rodrigo Fonseca , Íñigo Goiri , Gohar Chaudhry , Paul Batum , Jason Cooke , Eduardo Laureano , Colby Tresness , Mark Russinovich , Ricardo Bianchini

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is increasingly popular in the software industry due to the implied cost-savings in event-driven workloads and its synergy with DevOps. To size an on-premise FaaS platform, it is important to estimate the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Alim Ul Gias , Giuliano Casale

Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varad Kulkarni , Nikhil Reddy , Tuhin Khare , Abhinandan S. Prasad , Chitra Babu , Yogesh Simmhan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda) executing event-triggered code snippets (i.e., functions). Many studies that empirically evaluate…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a recent and already very popular paradigm in cloud computing. The function provider need only specify the function to be run, usually in a high-level language like JavaScript, and the service provider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Fritz Alder , N. Asokan , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Michael Steiner

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that frees developers from server management. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the most popular implementation of serverless computing, representing applications as event-driven and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xuanzhe Liu , Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Ding Li , Junkai Chen , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

Serverless execution and most notably the Function as a Service (FaaS) model got quite some attention during the recent years. As of today, all commercial and open source implementations follow the common practice of keeping the execution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Dániel Géhberger , Dávid Kovács

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud computing model in which applications are implemented as work flows of multiple independent functions. While cloud providers usually offer composition services for such workflows, they do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Fog computing can support IoT services with fast response time and low bandwidth usage by moving computation from the cloud to edge devices. However, existing fog computing frameworks have limited flexibility to support dynamic service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Bin Cheng , Jonathan Fürst , Gurkan Solmaz , Takuya Sanada

The proliferation of edge devices and the rapid growth of IoT data have called forth the edge computing paradigm. Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a promising computing paradigm to realize edge computing. This paper explores the feasibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Runyu Jin , Qirui Yang , Ming Zhao

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become a central paradigm in serverless cloud computing, yet optimizing FaaS deployments remains challenging. Using function fusion, multiple functions can be combined into a single deployment unit, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Niklas Kowallik , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Developing accurate and extendable performance models for serverless platforms, aka Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, is a very challenging task. Also, implementation and experimentation on real serverless platforms is both costly and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nima Mahmoudi , Hamzeh Khazaei

Serverless architectures, particularly the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, have become a cornerstone of modern cloud computing due to their ability to simplify resource management and enhance application deployment agility. However, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alexandre Savi Fayam Mbala Mouen , Jerry Lacmou Zeutouo , Vianney Kengne Tchendji

HPC and Cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Torsten Hoefler , Marcin Copik , Pete Beckman , Andrew Jones , Ian Foster , Manish Parashar , Daniel Reed , Matthias Troyer , Thomas Schulthess , Dan Ernst , Jack Dongarra

In a world, where complexity increases on a daily basis the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) cloud model seams to take countermeasures. In comparison to other cloud models, the fast evolving FaaS increasingly abstracts the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Roland Pellegrini , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

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

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a popular cloud paradigm to quickly and cheaply implement complex applications. Because the function instances cloud providers start to execute user code run on shared infrastructure, their…

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