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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

The rise of serverless computing introduced a new class of scalable, elastic and widely available parallel workers in the cloud. Many systems and applications benefit from offloading computations and parallel tasks to dynamically allocated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Marcin Copik , Lukas Möller , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

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

Datacenters are witnessing a rapid surge in the adoption of serverless functions for microservices-based applications. A vast majority of these microservices typically span less than a second, have strict SLO requirements, and are chained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran , Prashanth Thinakaran , Nachiappan Chidambaram , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Chita R. Das

With the advent of AWS Lambda in 2014, Serverless Computing, particularly Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), has witnessed growing popularity across various application domains. FaaS enables an application to be decomposed into fine-grained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mohak Chadha , Paul Wieland , Michael Gerndt

In recent years, serverless computing, especially Function as a Service (FaaS), is rapidly growing in popularity as a cloud programming model. The serverless computing model provides an intuitive interface for developing cloud-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Aristotelis Peri , Michail Tsenos , Vana Kalogeraki

Recent trends in Web development demonstrate an increased interest in serverless applications, i.e. applications that utilize computational resources provided by cloud services on demand instead of requiring traditional server management.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Vladislav Tankov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Serverless functions are a cloud computing paradigm where the provider takes care of resource management tasks such as resource provisioning, deployment, and auto-scaling. The only resource management task that developers are still in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Simon Eismann , Long Bui , Johannes Grohmann , Cristina L. Abad , Nikolas Herbst , Samuel Kounev

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, also referred to as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing model that has attracted significant attention and has been widely adopted in recent years. The serverless computing model offers an intuitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michail Tsenos , Aristotelis Peri , Vana Kalogeraki

Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

With the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency computing, cloud computing, especially serverless computing, has gradually become a research hotspot in recent years, attracting numerous research attention. Meanwhile,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hanzhe Li , Bingchen Lin , Mengyuan Xu

In Function as a Service (FaaS), a serverless computing variant, customers deploy functions instead of complete virtual machines or Linux containers. It is the cloud provider who maintains the runtime environment for these functions. FaaS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Bartłomiej Przybylski , Paweł Żuk , Krzysztof Rzadca

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

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

Serverless computing that runs functions with auto-scaling is a popular task execution pattern in the cloud-native era. By connecting serverless functions into workflows, tenants can achieve complex functionality. Prior researches adopt the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Zijun Li , Chuhao Xu , Quan Chen , Jieru Zhao , Chen Chen , Minyi Guo

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for developing applications at the function level, known as serverless functions. Due to the highly dynamic execution environment, multiple identical runs of the same serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Federica Sarro , Shangguang Wang

Concurrent workloads often extract insights from high-throughput, real-time data streams. Existing stream processing engines isolate each query's resources, ensuring robust performance but incurring high infrastructure costs. In contrast,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Eleni Zapridou , Michael Koepf , Panagiotis Sioulas , Ioannis Mytilinis , Anastasia Ailamaki

Serverless computing offers an event driven pay-as-you-go framework for application development. A key selling point is the concept of no back-end server management, allowing developers to focus on application functionality. This is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Daniel Kelly , Frank G Glavin , Enda Barrett

Serverless computing enables a new way of building and scaling cloud applications by allowing developers to write fine-grained serverless or cloud functions. The execution duration of a cloud function is typically short-ranging from a few…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Yuqi Fu , Li Liu , Haoliang Wang , Yue Cheng , Songqing Chen