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Serverless computing, also known as Functions-as-a-Service, is a recent paradigm aimed at simplifying the programming of cloud applications. The idea is that developers design applications in terms of functions, which are then deployed on a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Maurizio Gabbrielli , Saverio Giallorenzo , Ivan Lanese , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Stefano Pio Zingaro

This paper presents a stream-oriented architecture for structuring cluster applications. Clusters that run applications based on this architecture can scale to tenths of thousands of nodes with significantly less performance loss or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tassos S. Argyros , David R. Cheriton

Sending emails in large quantities can be tedious considering free services do not cover bulk email and paid services can be costly and are not easy to customize. Traditional email client used for basic emailing services fail to be useful…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Bazaru Priyatham Sai Chand

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

Pre-trained deep learning models are increasingly being used to offer a variety of compute-intensive predictive analytics services such as fitness tracking, speech and image recognition. The stateless and highly parallelizable nature of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Anirban Bhattacharjee , Ajay Dev Chhokra , Zhuangwei Kang , Hongyang Sun , Aniruddha Gokhale , Gabor Karsai

Serverless applications can be particularly difficult to troubleshoot, as these applications are often composed of various managed and partly managed services. Faults are often unpredictable and can occur at multiple points, even in simple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Maria C. Borges , Sebastian Werner , Ahmet Kilic

Serverless computing adopts a pay-as-you-go billing model where applications are executed in stateless and shortlived containers triggered by events, resulting in a reduction of monetary costs and resource utilization. However, existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chen Chen , Peiyuan Guan , Ziru Chen , Amir Taherkordi , Fen Hou , Lin X. Cai

With the proliferation of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks, and the programming languages that they use, along with operations of data loading, transformation, preparation and mining, ML model development is becoming a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Anirban Bhattacharjee , Yogesh Barve , Shweta Khare , Shunxing Bao , Aniruddha Gokhale , Thomas Damiano

Open-source 5G core implementations deploy network functions as always-on processes that consume resources even when idle. This inefficiency is most acute in private and edge deployments with sporadic traffic. Serverless5GC is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hai Dinh-Tuan

Serverless computing has grown rapidly for serving Large Language Model (LLM) inference due to its pay-as-you-go pricing, fine-grained GPU usage, and rapid scaling. However, our analysis reveals that current serverless can effectively serve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifan Sui , Hao Wang , Hanfei Yu , Yitao Hu , Jianxun Li , Hao Wang

The appeal of serverless (FaaS) has triggered a growing interest on how to use it in data-intensive applications such as ETL, query processing, or machine learning (ML). Several systems exist for training large-scale ML models on top of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiawei Jiang , Shaoduo Gan , Yue Liu , Fanlin Wang , Gustavo Alonso , Ana Klimovic , Ankit Singla , Wentao Wu , Ce Zhang

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

Serverless computing offers attractive scalability, elasticity and cost-effectiveness. However, constraints on memory, CPU and function runtime have hindered its adoption for data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML) workloads.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

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

Serverless computing is a paradigm in which the underlying infrastructure is fully managed by the provider, enabling applications and services to be executed with elastic resource provisioning and minimal operational overhead. A core model…

Sequence alignment has had an enormous impact on our understanding of biology, evolution, and disease. The alignment of biological {\em networks} holds similar promise. Biological networks generally model interactions between biomolecules…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-25 Wayne B. Hayes

Serverless applications are typically composed of function workflows in which multiple short-lived functions are triggered to exchange data in response to events or state changes. Current serverless platforms coordinate and trigger…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Minchen Yu , Tingjia Cao , Wei Wang , Ruichuan Chen

Wireless sensor network (WSN) has been developed for decades and have performed well in the performance, power consumption, and congestion control. However, the following problems have not been addressed, such as inaccurate cost estimation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tiannan Gao , Minxian Xu

Edge computing is a promising solution to enable low-latency IoT applications, by shifting computation from remote data centers to local devices, less powerful but closer to the end user devices. However, this creates the challenge on how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

WebAssembly has emerged as a lightweight and portable runtime to execute serverless functions, particularly in heterogeneous and resource-constrained environments such as the Edge Cloud Continuum. However, the performance benefits versus…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Cynthia Marcelino , Noah Krennmair , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic