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Serverless computing promises a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solution for running data-intensive applications and workflows in the heterogeneous and limited-resource environment of the Edge-Cloud Continuum. However, building and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Cynthia Marcelino , Stefan Nastic

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

Serverless computing has seen rapid growth due to the ease-of-use and cost-efficiency it provides. However, function scheduling, a critical component of serverless systems, has been overlooked. In this paper, we take a first-principles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kostis Kaffes , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Christos Kozyrakis

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 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

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 has revolutionized cloud architectures by enabling developers to deploy event-driven applications via lightweight, self-contained virtualized containers. However, serverless frameworks face critical cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sabyasachi Gupta , Paul Gratz , John Lusher

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

Serverless computing is a popular cloud computing paradigm that frees developers from server management. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the most popular implementation of serverless computing, representing applications as event-driven and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xuanzhe Liu , Jinfeng Wen , Zhenpeng Chen , Ding Li , Junkai Chen , Yi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

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

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

Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption due to its high scalability and flexible, pay-as-you-go billing model. In serverless, developers structure their services as a collection of functions, sporadically invoked by various events like…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Plamen Petrov , Marios Kogias , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot

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 provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the hands of the cloud provider and applications only consume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Natalie Carl , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Serverless cloud is an innovative cloud service model that frees customers from most cloud management duties. It also offers the same advantages as other cloud models but at much lower costs. As a result, the serverless cloud has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Tam N. Nguyen

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

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

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of its lower cost and easier deployment. Several cloud service providers (CSPs) offer serverless computing on their public clouds, but it may bring the vendor lock-in risk. To avoid this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

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

Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian