English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards a Function-as-a-Service Choreographic Prog…

200 papers

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda) executing event-triggered code snippets (i.e., functions). Many studies that empirically evaluate…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Joel Scheuner , Philipp Leitner

Software companies that develop their products on a basis of service-oriented architecture (SOA) can expect various improvements as a result of choreography. Current choreography practices, however, are not yet used extensively in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Nebojša Taušan , Jouni Markkula , Pasi Kuvaja , Markku Oivo

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

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) 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

HPC and Cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Torsten Hoefler , Marcin Copik , Pete Beckman , Andrew Jones , Ian Foster , Manish Parashar , Daniel Reed , Matthias Troyer , Thomas Schulthess , Dan Ernst , Jack Dongarra

Modern service-oriented systems are often built by reusing, and composing together, existing services distributed over the Internet. Service choreography is a possible form of service composition whose goal is to specify the interactions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Marco Autili , Massimo Tivoli

While the first generation of cloud computing systems mitigated the job of system administrators, the next generation of cloud computing systems is emerging to mitigate the burden for cloud developers -- facilitating the development of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Mohsen Amini Salehi

New generations of distributed systems are opening novel perspectives for logic programming (LP): on the one hand, service-oriented architectures represent nowadays the standard approach for distributed systems engineering; on the other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Roberta Calegari , Enrico Denti , Stefano Mariani , Andrea Omicini

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

This tool paper presents Caos: a methodology and a programming framework for computer-aided design of structural operational semantics for formal models. This framework includes a set of Scala libraries and a workflow to produce visual and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-01 José Proença , Luc Edixhoven

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

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

Agentic workflows that use autonomous AI Agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers is rapidly rising. This introduces challenges in scalable cloud deployment and state management. Traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Varad Kulkarni , Vaibhav Jha , Nikhil Reddy , Anand Eswaran , Praveen Jayachandran , Yogesh Simmhan

Choreographies are global descriptions of interactions among concurrent components, most notably used in the settings of verification (e.g., Multiparty Session Types) and synthesis of correct-by-construction software (Choreographic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Luís Cruz-Filipe , Kim S. Larsen , Fabrizio Montesi

We present AIOCJ, a framework for programming distributed adaptive applications. Applications are programmed using AIOC, a choreographic language suited for expressing patterns of interaction from a global point of view. AIOC allows the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Mila Dalla Preda , Saverio Giallorenzo , Ivan Lanese , Jacopo Mauro , Maurizio Gabbrielli

Choreographies are formal descriptions of distributed systems, which focus on the way in which participants communicate. While they are useful for analysing protocols, in practice systems are written directly by specifying each…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Bjørn Angel Kjær , Luís Cruz-Filipe , Fabrizio Montesi

We define a method to automatically synthesize provably-correct efficient distributed implementations from high-level global choreographies. A global choreography describes the execution and communication logic between a set of provided…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mohamad Jaber , Yliès Falcone , Paul Attie , Al-Abbass Khalil , Rayan Hallal

Traditional concurrent-programming techniques require programmers to painstakingly write programs for each participant in a concurrent system. Choreographic programming, in contrast, allows a programmer to write one centralized program and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ashley Samuelson , Andrew K. Hirsch , Ethan Cecchetti

We built Chorex, a language that brings choreographic programming to Elixir as a path toward robust distributed applications. Chorex is unique among choreographic languages because it tolerates failure among actors: when an actor crashes,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ashton Wiersdorf , Ben Greenman