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Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged to reduce the deployment cost of running cloud applications compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). FaaS follows a serverless 'pay-as-you-go' computing model; it comes at a higher…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ali Raza , Zongshun Zhang , Nabeel Akhtar , Vatche Isahagian , Ibrahim Matta

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

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Serverless computing is a buzzword that is being used commonly in the world of technology and among developers and businesses. Using the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model of serverless, one can easily deploy their applications to the cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Akash Puliyadi Jegannathan , Rounak Saha , Sourav Kanti Addya

Current Serverless abstractions (e.g., FaaS) poorly support non-functional requirements (e.g., QoS and constraints), are provider-dependent, and are incompatible with other cloud abstractions (e.g., databases). As a result, application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Hai Duc Nguyen , Mohsen Amini Salehi

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

We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

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

In FaaS, users invoke remote functions, which encapsulate service(s). These functions typically need to remotely access a persistent state via external services: this makes the paradigm less attractive in edge systems, especially for IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Carlo Puliafito , Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Enzo Mingozzi , Andrea Passarella

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

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) 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 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

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

Offloading computation from user devices to nodes with processing capabilities at the edge of the network is a major trend in today's network/service architectures. At the same time, serverless computing has gained a huge traction among the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

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

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

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

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 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