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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 simplifies deployment and scaling, yet cold-start latency remains a major performance bottleneck. Unlike prior work that treats mitigation as a black-box optimization, we study cold starts as a developer-visible design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Foyzul Hassan , Amiangshu Bosu , Probir Roy

Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and cost-effective pricing models. However, despite these advantages, it faces the significant challenge of cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq , Ali Al Zein , Soumya Sripad Vaidya , Arati Khanolkar , Zheng Song , Probir Roy

The serverless computing model strengthens the cloud computing tendency to abstract resource management. Serverless platforms are responsible for deploying and scaling the developer's applications. Serverless also incorporated the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Paulo Silva , Thiago Emmanuel Pereira

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

Serverless computing has gained popularity due to its cost efficiency, ease of deployment, and enhanced scalability. However, in serverless environments, servers are initiated only after receiving a request, leading to increased response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Vincent Hsieh , Jerry Chou

Serverless computing has transformed cloud application deployment by introducing a fine-grained, event-driven execution model that abstracts away infrastructure management. Its on-demand nature makes it especially appealing for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chanh Nguyen , Monowar Bhuyan , Erik Elmroth

Recently, academics and the corporate sector have paid attention to serverless computing, which enables dynamic scalability and an economic model. In serverless computing, users only pay for the time they actually use resources, enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muhammed Golec , Guneet Kaur Walia , Mohit Kumar , Felix Cuadrado , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Steve Uhlig

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has recently emerged as a new cloud computing paradigm. It promises high utilization of data center resources through allocating resources on demand at per-function request granularity. High cold-start…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yue Tan , David Liu , Nanqinqin Li , Amit Levy

Serverless edge computing adopts an event-based paradigm that provides back-end services on an as-used basis, resulting in efficient resource utilization. To improve the end-to-end latency and revenue, service providers need to optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Chen , Manuel Herrera , Ge Zheng , Liqiao Xia , Zhengyang Ling , Jiangtao Wang

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 offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing, which place its autoscaling potential at odds with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Joseph M. Hellerstein , Jose Faleiro , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Johann Schleier-Smith , Vikram Sreekanti , Alexey Tumanov , Chenggang Wu

Serverless computing simplifies cloud deployment but introduces new challenges in managing service latency and carbon emissions. Reducing cold-start latency requires retaining warm function instances, while minimizing carbon emissions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Bowen Sun , Christos D. Antonopoulos , Evgenia Smirni , Bin Ren , Nikolaos Bellas , Spyros Lalis

Integrating GPUs into serverless computing platforms is crucial for improving efficiency. However, existing solutions for GPU-enabled serverless computing platforms face two significant problems due to coarse-grained GPU management: long…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Han Zhao , Weihao Cui , Quan Chen , Shulai Zhang , Zijun Li , Jingwen Leng , Chao Li , Deze Zeng , Minyi Guo

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

Code initialization -- the step of loading code, executing static code, filling caches, and forming re-used connections -- tends to dominate cold-start time in serverless compute systems such as AWS Lambda. Post-initialization memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Marc Brooker , Adrian Costin Catangiu , Mike Danilov , Alexander Graf , Colm MacCarthaigh , Andrei Sandu

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

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
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