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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

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

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

Next generation technologies such as smart healthcare, self-driving cars, and smart cities require new approaches to deal with the network traffic generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as efficient programming models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Quoc Lap Trieu , Bahman Javadi , Jim Basilakis , Adel N. Toosi

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

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

Data is found everywhere, from health and human infrastructure to the surge of sensors and the proliferation of internet-connected devices. To meet this challenge, the data engineering field has expanded significantly in recent years in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mills Staylor , Arup Kumar Sarker , Gregor von Laszewski , Geoffrey Fox , Yue Cheng , Judy Fox

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a new wave of edge computing due to the need to process data on the edge, closer to where it is being produced and attempting to move away from a cloud-centric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Hamza Javed , Adel N. Toosi , Mohammad S. Aslanpour

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud paradigm that offers an elastic and scalable allocation of computing resources with pay-as-you-go billing. In the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, applications comprise short-lived…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Wei Qiu , Marcin Copik , Yun Wang , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for its ease-of-management and elasticity. However, optimizing scheduling for serverless functions remains challenging due to their dynamic and event-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zhuangbin Chen , Juzheng Zheng , Zibin Zheng

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become an increasingly popular way for users to deploy their applications without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. However, existing FaaS platforms rely on remote storage to maintain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Francisco Romero , Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Íñigo Goiri , Pragna Gopa , Paul Batum , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Rodrigo Fonseca , Christos Kozyrakis , Ricardo Bianchini

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

FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) revolutionized cloud computing by replacing persistent virtual machines with dynamically allocated resources. This shift trades locality and statefulness for a pay-as-you-go model more suited to variable and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Pengyu Zhou , Konstantin Taranov , Torsten Hoefler

It is increasingly common to outsource network functions (NFs) to the cloud. However, no cloud providers offer NFs-as-a-Service (NFaaS) that allows users to run custom NFs. Our work addresses how a cloud provider can offer NFaaS. We use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Arjun Singhvi , Junaid Khalid , Aditya Akella , Sujata Banerjee

The serverless cloud computing model offers a framework where the service provider abstracts the underlying infrastructure management from developers. In this serverless model, FaaS provides an event-driven, function-oriented computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

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

Internet-scale web applications are becoming increasingly storage-intensive and rely heavily on in-memory object caching to attain required I/O performance. We argue that the emerging serverless computing paradigm provides a well-suited,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Ao Wang , Jingyuan Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Ali Anwar , Lukas Rupprecht , Dimitrios Skourtis , Vasily Tarasov , Feng Yan , Yue Cheng

Aggregated HPC resources have rigid allocation systems and programming models which struggle to adapt to diverse and changing workloads. Consequently, HPC systems fail to efficiently use the large pools of unused memory and increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Marcin Copik , Marcin Chrapek , Larissa Schmid , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Serverless computing has made it easier than ever to deploy applications over scalable cloud resources, all the while driving higher utilization for cloud providers. While this technique has worked well for easily divisible resources like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Nathan Pemberton , Anton Zabreyko , Zhoujie Ding , Randy Katz , Joseph Gonzalez

As data-intensive applications grow, batch processing in limited-resource environments faces scalability and resource management challenges. Serverless computing offers a flexible alternative, enabling dynamic resource allocation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Amine Barrak , Emna Ksontini