Scheduling containers rather than functions for function-as-a-service

DK Kim, HG Roh - … IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a compelling technology that allows users to run functions
in an event-driven way without concerns about server management. Container-based …

Scheduling methods to reduce response latency of function as a service

P Zuk, K Rzadca - 2020 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Function as a Service (FaaS) permits cloud customers to deploy to cloud individual
functions, in contrast to complete virtual machines or Linux containers. All major cloud …

{FaaSNet}: Scalable and fast provisioning of custom serverless container runtimes at alibaba cloud function compute

A Wang, S Chang, H Tian, H Wang, H Yang… - 2021 USENIX Annual …, 2021 - usenix.org
Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), enables a new way of building and
scaling applications by allowing users to deploy fine-grained functions while providing fully …

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 …

Owl: Performance-aware scheduling for resource-efficient function-as-a-service cloud

H Tian, S Li, A Wang, W Wang, T Wu… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This work documents our experience of improving the scheduler in Alibaba Function
Compute, a public FaaS platform. It commences with our observation that memory and CPU …

Data-driven scheduling in serverless computing to reduce response time

B Przybylski, P Żuk, K Rzadca - 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

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 …

Opportunities for Optimizing the Container Runtime

A Hall, U Ramachandran - 2022 IEEE/ACM 7th Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Container-based virtualization provides lightweight mechanisms for process isolation and
resource control that are essential for maintaining a high degree of multi-tenancy in Function …

Towards qos-aware function composition scheduling in apache openwhisk

GR Russo, A Milani, S Iannucci… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is increasingly popular thanks to the benefits provided to
application developers and operators. Besides commercial Cloud-based offerings, open …