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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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has raised a growing interest in how to "tame" serverless computing to enable domain-specific use cases such as data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML), to name a few. Recently, several systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Pablo Gimeno Sarroca , Marc Sánchez-Artigas

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 a new cloud service model that reduces both cloud providers' and consumers' costs through extremely agile development, operation, and charging mechanisms and has been widely applied since its emergence. Nevertheless,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Xing Li , Xue Leng , Yan Chen

The success of today's AI applications requires not only model training (Model-centric) but also data engineering (Data-centric). In data-centric AI, active learning (AL) plays a vital role, but current AL tools 1) require users to manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yizheng Huang , Huaizheng Zhang , Yuanming Li , Chiew Tong Lau , Yang You

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

Serverless computing has emerged as a compelling new paradigm of cloud computing models in recent years. It promises the user services at large scale and low cost while eliminating the need for infrastructure management. On cloud provider…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Lucia Schuler , Somaya Jamil , Niklas Kühl

Aligning general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks often incurs significant training adjustment costs. Prior research has explored various avenues to enhance alignment efficiency, primarily through minimal-data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hao Chen , Haoze Li , Zhiqing Xiao , Lirong Gao , Qi Zhang , Xiaomeng Hu , Ningtao Wang , Xing Fu , Junbo Zhao

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

FaaS introduces a lightweight, function-based cloud execution model that finds its relevance in a range of applications like IoT-edge data processing and anomaly detection. While cloud service providers offer a near-infinite function…

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

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

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

This paper presents ServerlessLLM, a distributed system designed to support low-latency serverless inference for Large Language Models (LLMs). By harnessing the substantial near-GPU storage and memory capacities of inference servers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yao Fu , Leyang Xue , Yeqi Huang , Andrei-Octavian Brabete , Dmitrii Ustiugov , Yuvraj Patel , Luo Mai

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

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the execution scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, runtime environments) of stateless functions. Recent developments demonstrate the benefits of using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as a popular cloud computing paradigm. It enables developers to implement function-level tasks, i.e., serverless functions, without managing infrastructure. While reducing operational overhead, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jinfeng Wen , Yuehan Sun

The rise of serverless computing introduced a new class of scalable, elastic and widely available parallel workers in the cloud. Many systems and applications benefit from offloading computations and parallel tasks to dynamically allocated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Marcin Copik , Lukas Möller , Alexandru Calotoiu , Torsten Hoefler

Cloud service provider propose services to insensitive customers to use their platform. Different services can achieve the same result at different cost. In this paper, we study the efficiency of a serverless architecture for running highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Samuel Lavoie , Anthony Garant , Fabio Petrillo

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

The serverless computing ecosystem is growing due to interest by software engineers. Beside Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) systems, developer-oriented tools such as deployment and debugging frameworks as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Josef Spillner