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Serverless computing offers elasticity unmatched by conventional server-based cloud infrastructure. Although modern data processing systems embrace serverless storage, such as Amazon S3, they continue to manage their compute resources as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Thomas Bodner , Daniel Ritter , Martin Boissier , Tilmann Rabl

Serverless computing shows good promise for efficiency and ease-of-use. Yet, there are only a few, scattered and sometimes conflicting reports on questions such as 'Why do so many companies adopt serverless?', 'When are serverless…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Simon Eismann , Joel Scheuner , Erwin van Eyk , Maximilian Schwinger , Johannes Grohmann , Cristina L. Abad , Alexandru Iosup

Data lakes hold a growing amount of cold data that is infrequently accessed, yet require interactive response times. Serverless functions are seen as a way to address this use case since they offer an appealing alternative to maintaining…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Simon Kassing , Ingo Müller , Gustavo Alonso

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

Serverless computing has emerged as a market-dominant paradigm in modern cloud computing, benefiting both cloud providers and tenants. While service providers can optimize their machine utilization, tenants only need to pay for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Qi Pei , Yipeng Wang , Seunghee Shin

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

Serverless computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm, with a significant adoption rate among cloud customers. While this model offers advantages such as abstraction from the deployment and resource scheduling, it also poses limitations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Larissa Schmid , Marcin Copik , Alexandru Calotoiu , Laurin Brandner , Anne Koziolek , Torsten Hoefler

Enterprises are increasingly adopting serverless computing to enhance scalability, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. However, this shift introduces new responsibilities and necessitates a distinct set of skills for practitioners. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Muhammad Hamza , Vy Kauppinen , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Wardah Naeem Awan , Kari Smolander

In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nakhat Syeda , Harsh Shah , Rajvinder Singh , Suraj Jaju , Sumedha Kumar , Gourav Chhabra , Maria Spichkova

Serverless computing is a cloud execution model where developers run code, and the server management is handled by the cloud provider. Serverless computing is increasingly gaining popularity as more systems adopt it to enhance scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hasini Sumalee Perera , Zadia Codabux , Fabio Palomba

Cloud computing offers on-demand, scalable computing and storage, and has become an essential resource for the analyses of big biomedical data. The usual approach to cloud computing requires users to reserve and provision virtual servers.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-01 Dimitar Kumanov , Ling-Hong Hung , Wes Lloyd , Ka Yee Yeung

Current proprietary and open-source serverless platforms follow opinionated, hardcoded scheduling policies to deploy the functions to be executed over the available workers. Such policies may decrease the performance and the security of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Cosimo Laneve , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

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

Increasing popularity of the serverless computing approach has led to the emergence of new cloud infrastructures working in Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) model like AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, or Azure Container Instances. They introduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Krzysztof Burkat , Maciej Pawlik , Bartosz Balis , Maciej Malawski , Karan Vahi , Mats Rynge , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Ewa Deelman

Serverless query processing has become increasingly popular due to its auto-scaling, high elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It allows cloud data warehouse (or lakehouse) users to focus on data analysis without the burden of managing…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haoqiong Bian , Dongyang Geng , Yunpeng Chai , Anastasia Ailamaki

Serverless computing platforms currently rely on basic pricing schemes that are static and do not reflect customer feedback. This leads to significant inefficiencies from a total utility perspective. As one of the fastest-growing cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Vipul Gupta , Soham Phade , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Cloud computing refers to a paradigm shift to overall IT solutions while raising the accessibility, scalability and effectiveness through its enabling technologies. However, migrated cloud platforms and services cost benefits as well as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-21 Abhinav Pandey , Akash Pandey , Ankit Tandon , Brajesh Kr Maurya , Upendra Kushwaha , Dr. Madhvendra Mishra , Vijayshree Tiwari

Serverless computing has recently experienced significant adoption by several applications, especially Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In serverless computing, rather than deploying and managing dedicated virtual machines, users are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tarek Elgamal , Atul Sandur , Klara Nahrstedt , Gul Agha

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

Context. While in serverless computing, application resource management and operational concerns are generally delegated to the cloud provider, ensuring that serverless applications meet their performance requirements is still a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Simon Eismann , Diego Elias Costa , Lizhi Liao , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Weiyi Shang , André van Hoorn , Samuel Kounev