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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

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 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

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and "serverless" cloud computing are becoming increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do minimal I/O and communication. We argue that the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Vikram Sreekanti , Chenggang Wu , Xiayue Charles Lin , Johann Schleier-Smith , Jose M. Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Alexey Tumanov

The Function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing model has recently seen significant growth especially for highly scalable, event-driven applications. The easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient fine-grained billing of FaaS is highly attractive to big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yuze Li , Kevin Assogba , Abhijit Tripathy , Moiz Arif , M. Mustafa Rafique , Ali R. Butt , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

In this paper, we address the problem of supporting stateful workflows following a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model in edge networks. In particular we focus on the problem of data transfer, which can be a performance bottleneck due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Angel C. Chavez-Moreno , Cristina L. Abad

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

FaaS (Function as a Service) allows developers to upload and execute code in the cloud without managing servers. FaaS offerings from leading public cloud providers are based on system microVM or application container technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ju Long , Hung-Ying Tai , Shen-Ta Hsieh , Michael Juntao Yuan

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows to directly submit function code to a cloud provider without the burden of managing infrastructure resources. Each cloud provider establishes execution time limits to their FaaS offerings, which impose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Rodrigo Landa Andraca , Mahdi Zareei

In cloud event processing, data generated at the edge is processed in real-time by cloud resources. Both distributed stream processing (DSP) and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) have been proposed to implement such event processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Tobias Pfandzelter , Sören Henning , Trever Schirmer , Wilhelm Hasselbring , 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 computing has seen a myriad of work exploring its potential. Some systems tackle Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) properties on automatic elasticity and scale to run highly-parallel computing jobs. However, they focus on specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Pedro García-López

Along with the wide-adoption of Serverless Computing, more and more applications are developed and deployed on cloud platforms. Major cloud providers present their serverless workflow services to orchestrate serverless functions, making it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jinfeng Wen , Yi Liu

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

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

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive paradigm due to the efficiency of development and the ease of deployment without managing any underlying infrastructure. Nevertheless, serverless computing approaches face numerous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Emilian Simion , Yuandou Wang , Hsiang-ling Tai , Uraz Odyurt , Zhiming Zhao