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Function as a Service (FaaS) paradigm is becoming widespread and is envisioned as the next generation of cloud systems that mitigate the burden for programmers and cloud solution architects. However, the FaaS abstraction only makes the…

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Serverless computing has become a major trend among cloud providers. With serverless computing, developers fully delegate the task of managing the servers, dynamically allocating the required resources, as well as handling availability and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Pascal Maissen , Pascal Felber , Peter Kropf , Valerio Schiavoni

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for a pay-as-you-go model more suited to variable and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Pengyu Zhou , Konstantin Taranov , Torsten Hoefler

Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to efficiently use the large pools of unused memory and increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Marcin Copik , Marcin Chrapek , Larissa Schmid , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) enables developers to run serverless applications without managing operational tasks. In current FaaS platforms, both synchronous and asynchronous calls are executed immediately. In this paper, we present…

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

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

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

Meeting the requirements of future services with time sensitivity and handling sudden load spikes of the services in Fog computing environments are challenging tasks due to the lack of publicly available Fog nodes and their characteristics.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sudheer Kumar Battula , Saurabh Garg , James Montgomery , Ranesh Naha

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is emerging as an important cloud computing service model as it can improve the scalability and usability of a wide range of applications, especially Machine-Learning (ML) inference tasks that require scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ming Zhao , Kritshekhar Jha , Sungho Hong

The function-as-a-service (FaaS) paradigm is envisioned as the next generation of cloud computing systems that mitigate the burden for cloud-native application developers by abstracting them from cloud resource management. However, it does…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged as a new cloud computing paradigm. It promises high utilization of data center resources through allocating resources on demand at per-function request granularity. High cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yue Tan , David Liu , Nanqinqin Li , Amit Levy

The serverless computing ecosystem is growing due to interest by software engineers. Beside Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) systems, developer-oriented tools such as deployment and debugging frameworks as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Josef Spillner

Serverless computing has emerged as a very popular cloud technology, together with its companion Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model enabling invocations of stateless functions from clients. An evolution of serverless is now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

Serverless computing is a growing and maturing field that is the focus of much research, industry interest and adoption. Previous works exploring Functions-as-a-Service providers have focused primarily on the most well known providers AWS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nnamdi Ekwe-Ekwe , Lucas Amos

Functions as a Service has emerged as a popular abstraction for a wide range of cloud applications and an important cloud workload. We present the design and implementation of FaasMeter, a FaaS control plane which provides energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Abdul Rehman , Alexander Fuerst , Prateek Sharma

Function-as-a-Service is a novel type of cloud service used for creating distributed applications and utilizing computing resources. Application developer supplies source code of cloud functions, which are small applications or application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Maciej Pawlik , Kamil Figiela , Maciej Malawski

Serverless computing is a paradigm in which the underlying infrastructure is fully managed by the provider, enabling applications and services to be executed with elastic resource provisioning and minimal operational overhead. A core model…

Serverless computing paradigm has become more ingrained into the industry, as it offers a cheap alternative for application development and deployment. This new paradigm has also created new kinds of problems for the developer, who needs to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Gor Safaryan , Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

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

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