English
Related papers

Related papers: Stateless or stateful FaaS? I'll take both!

200 papers

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a promising paradigm for applications distributed across the edge-cloud continuum. FaaS functions are stateless by nature, leading to high elasticity and transparent invocation. Supporting stateful…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

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

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

Since the appearance of Amazon Lambda in 2014, all major cloud providers have embraced the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, because of its enormous potential for a wide variety of applications. As expected (and also desired), the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pedro García López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Gerard París , Daniel Barcelona Pons , Álvaro Ruiz Ollobarren , David Arroyo Pinto

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

The advent of serverless computing has revolutionized the landscape of cloud computing, offering a new paradigm that enables developers to focus solely on their applications rather than managing and provisioning the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Muhammad Hamza , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Rafael Capilla

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

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francisco Carpio , Marc Michalke , Admela Jukan

Developing stateful cloud applications, such as low-latency workflows and microservices with strict consistency requirements, remains arduous for programmers. The Stateful Functions-as-a-Service (SFaaS) paradigm aims to serve these use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kyriakos Psarakis , George Christodoulou , George Siachamis , Marios Fragkoulis , Asterios Katsifodimos

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm has a lot of potential as a computing model for fog environments comprising both cloud and edge nodes. When the request rate exceeds capacity limits at the edge, some functions need to be offloaded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-05 David Bermbach , Setareh Maghsudi , Jonathan Hasenburg , Tobias Pfandzelter

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

Serverless computing is a cloud computing paradigm that allows developers to focus exclusively on business logic as cloud service providers manage resource management tasks. Serverless applications follow this model, where the application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Shajulin Benedict , Michael Gerndt

Serverless computing -- an emerging cloud-native paradigm for the deployment of applications and services -- represents an evolution in cloud application development, programming models, abstractions, and platforms. It promises a real…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Paul Castro , Vatche Ishakian , Vinod Muthusamy , Aleksander Slominski

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

The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their applications into FaaS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Trever Schirmer , Joel Scheuner , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Natalie Carl , Trever Schirmer , Niklas Kowallik , Joshua Adamek , Tobias Pfandzelter , Sergio Lucia , David Bermbach

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

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the execution scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent developments demonstrate the benefits of using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Although the cloud has reached a state of robustness, the burden of using its resources falls on the shoulders of programmers who struggle to keep up with ever-growing cloud infrastructure services and abstractions. As a result, state…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Kyriakos Psarakis , Wouter Zorgdrager , Marios Fragkoulis , Guido Salvaneschi , Asterios Katsifodimos