How Low Can You Go? Practical cold-start performance limits in FaaS

Y Tan, D Liu, N Li, A Levy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13319, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

Defuse: A dependency-guided function scheduler to mitigate cold starts on faas platforms

J Shen, T Yang, Y Su, Y Zhou… - 2021 IEEE 41st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is becoming a prevalent paradigm in developing cloud
applications. With FaaS, clients can develop applications as serverless functions, leaving …

Prebaking runtime environments to improve the FaaS cold start latency

D Fireman, P Silva, TE Pereira, L Mafra… - Future Generation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Function-as-service (FaaS) platforms promise a simpler programming model for
cloud computing, given that providers take care of the overall resource management while …

Has Your FaaS Application Been Decommissioned Yet?--A Case Study on the Idle Timeout in Function as a Service Infrastructure

KL Ngo, J Mukherjee, ZM Jiang, M Litoiu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10227, 2022 - arxiv.org
Function as a Service (FaaS) is a new cloud technology with automated resource
management. Different from traditional cloud computing, each FaaS cloud function can only …

FaasCache: keeping serverless computing alive with greedy-dual caching

A Fuerst, P Sharma - Proceedings of the 26th ACM International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Functions as a Service (also called serverless computing) promises to revolutionize how
applications use cloud resources. However, functions suffer from cold-start problems due to …

Performance evaluation of asynchronous faas

D Balla, M Maliosz, C Simon - 2021 IEEE 14th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Function as a Service (FaaS) is a novel but dynamically emerging field of cloud computing.
The majority of the leading cloud service providers have their own FaaS platforms, however …

A SPEC RG cloud group's vision on the performance challenges of FaaS cloud architectures

E Van Eyk, A Iosup, CL Abad, J Grohmann… - Companion of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
As a key part of the serverless computing paradigm, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms
enable users to run arbitrary functions without being concerned about operational issues …

SEUSS: Rapid serverless deployment using environment snapshots

J Cadden, T Unger, Y Awad, H Dong, O Krieger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Modern FaaS systems perform well in the case of repeat executions when function working
sets stay small. However, these platforms are less effective when applied to more complex …

FASE: fast deployment for dependent applications in serverless environments

R Saha, A Satpathy, SK Addya - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2024 - Springer
Function-as-a-service has reduced the user burden by allowing cloud service providers to
overtake operational activities such as resource allocation, service deployment, auto …

Serverless in the wild: Characterizing and optimizing the serverless workload at a large cloud provider

M Shahrad, R Fonseca, I Goiri, G Chaudhry… - 2020 USENIX annual …, 2020 - usenix.org
Function as a Service (FaaS) has been gaining popularity as a way to deploy computations
to serverless backends in the cloud. This paradigm shifts the complexity of allocating and …