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 …

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 …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is increasingly popular thanks to the benefits provided to
application developers and operators. Besides commercial Cloud-based offerings, open …

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 …

We consider the problem of scheduling small cloud functions on serverless computing
platforms. Fast deployment and execution of these functions is critical, for example, for …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers a fine-grained resource provision model, enabling
developers to build highly elastic cloud applications. User requests are handled by a series …

The function-as-a-service (FaaS) service model has been gaining adoption at a fast pace. In
this service model, cloud applications are structured as self-contained code modules called …

In traditional cloud computing, dedicated hardware is substituted by dynamically allocated,
utility-oriented resources such as virtualized servers. While cloud services are following the …

Most well-known cloud providers offer advanced support for serverless applications that
goes beyond single function invocation by enabling developers to build entire workflows …

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 …