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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…

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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.…

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Serverless computing is an excellent fit for big data processing because it can scale quickly and cheaply to thousands of parallel functions. Existing serverless platforms isolate functions in ephemeral, stateless containers, preventing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Simon Shillaker , Peter Pietzuch

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 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

As an emerging cloud computing deployment paradigm, serverless computing is gaining traction due to its efficiency and ability to harness on-demand cloud resources. However, a significant hurdle remains in the form of the cold start…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Cheryl Lee , Zhouruixing Zhu , Tianyi Yang , Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Pinjia He , Michael R. Lyu

High performance is needed in many computing systems, from batch-managed supercomputers to general-purpose cloud platforms. However, scientific clusters lack elastic parallelism, while clouds cannot offer competitive costs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marcin Copik , Konstantin Taranov , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Despite its already widespread popularity, it continues to gain adoption. More and more developers and architects continue to adopt and apply the FaaS (Function as a Service) model in cloud solutions. The most extensively used FaaS service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Juan Mera Menéndez , Martin Bartlett

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas

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) 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

Serverless computing promises convenient abstractions for developing and deploying functions that execute in response to events. In such Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, scheduling is an integral task, but current scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Saman Akbari , Manfred Hauswirth

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) struggles with burst-parallel jobs due to needing multiple independent invocations to start a job. The lack of a group invocation primitive complicates application development and overlooks crucial aspects like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Daniel Barcelona-Pons , Aitor Arjona , Pedro García-López , Enrique Molina-Giménez , Stepan Klymonchuk

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

Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

Function-as-a-Service is a popular cloud programming model that supports developers by abstracting away most operational concerns with automatic deployment and scaling of applications. Due to the high level of abstraction, developers rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Trever Schirmer , Nils Japke , Sofia Greten , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

This review report discusses the cold start latency in serverless inference and existing solutions. It particularly reviews the ServerlessLLM method, a system designed to address the cold start problem in serverless inference for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Himel Ghosh

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has raised a growing interest in how to "tame" serverless computing to enable domain-specific use cases such as data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML), to name a few. Recently, several systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Pablo Gimeno Sarroca , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

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