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Elastic scaling is one of the central benefits provided by serverless platforms, and requires that they scale resource up and down in response to changing workloads. Serverless platforms scale-down resources by terminating previously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kalev Alpernas , Aurojit Panda , Mooly Sagiv

Serverless computing promises fine-grained elasticity and operational simplicity, fueling widespread interest from both industry and academia. Yet this promise is undercut by the cold setart problem, where invoking a function after a period…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ben Holmes , Baltasar Dinis , Lana Honcharuk , Joshua Fried , Adam Belay

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

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

The increased use of micro-services to build web applications has spurred the rapid growth of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) or serverless computing platforms. While FaaS simplifies provisioning and scaling for application developers, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Arjun Singhvi , Kevin Houck , Arjun Balasubramanian , Mohammed Danish Shaikh , Shivaram Venkataraman , Aditya Akella

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

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

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

Elasticity is fundamental to cloud computing, as it enables quickly allocating resources to match the demand of each workload as it arrives, rather than pre-provisioning resources to meet performance objectives. However, even serverless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tom Kuchler , Pinghe Li , Yazhuo Zhang , Lazar Cvetković , Boris Goranov , Tobias Stocker , Leon Thomm , Simone Kalbermatter , Tim Notter , Andrea Lattuada , Ana Klimovic

Current serverless offerings give users a limited degree of flexibility for configuring the resources allocated to their function invocations by either coupling memory and CPU resources together or providing no knobs at all. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Muhammad Bilal , Marco Canini , Rodrigo Fonseca , Rodrigo Rodrigues

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

Vector similarity search presents significant challenges in terms of scalability for large and high-dimensional datasets, as well as in providing native support for hybrid queries. Serverless computing and cloud functions offer attractive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Serverless is an attractive computing model that offers seamless scalability and elasticity; it takes the infrastructure management burden away from users and enables a pay-as-you-use billing model. As a result, serverless is becoming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Serhii Ivanenko , Vasyl Lanko , Rudi Horn , Vojin Jovanovic , Rodrigo Bruno

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

In today's Function-as-a-Service offerings, a programmer is usually responsible for configuring function memory for its successful execution, which allocates proportional function resources such as CPU and network. However, right-sizing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Siddharth Agarwal , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Serverless computing is an excellent fit for big data processing because it can scale quickly and cheaply to thousands of parallel functions. Existing serverless platforms isolate functions in ephemeral, stateless containers, preventing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Simon Shillaker , Peter Pietzuch

Dynamic offloading of Machine Learning (ML) model partitions across different resource orchestration services, such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), can balance processing and transmission delays while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

Memory has become the primary cost driver in cloud data centers. Yet, a significant portion of memory allocated to VMs in public clouds remains unused. To optimize this resource, "cold" memory can be reclaimed from VMs and stored on slower…

Rapid adoption of the serverless (or Function-as-a-Service, FaaS) paradigm, pioneered by Amazon with AWS Lambda and followed by numerous commercial offerings and open source projects, introduces new challenges in designing the cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Ping-Min Lin , Alex Glikson

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia