Serverless computing: a survey of opportunities, challenges, and applications

H Shafiei, A Khonsari, P Mousavi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The emerging serverless computing paradigm has attracted attention from both academia
and industry. This paradigm brings benefits such as less operational complexity, a pay-as …

Jiffy: Elastic far-memory for stateful serverless analytics

A Khandelwal, Y Tang, R Agarwal, A Akella… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Stateful serverless analytics can be enabled using a remote memory system for inter-task
communication, and for storing and exchanging intermediate data. However, existing …

Serverless computing: state-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities

Y Li, Y Lin, Y Wang, K Ye, C Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Serverless computing is growing in popularity by virtue of its lightweight and simplicity of
management. It achieves these merits by reducing the granularity of the computing unit to …

Understanding ephemeral storage for serverless analytics

A Klimovic, Y Wang, C Kozyrakis, P Stuedi… - 2018 USENIX annual …, 2018 - usenix.org
Serverless computing frameworks allow users to launch thousands of concurrent tasks with
high elasticity and fine-grain resource billing without explicitly managing computing …

Serverless computing: Current trends and open problems

I Baldini, P Castro, K Chang, P Cheng, S Fink… - Research advances in …, 2017 - Springer
Serverless computing has emerged as a new compelling paradigm for the deployment of
applications and services. It represents an evolution of cloud programming models …

Serverless data analytics with flint

Y Kim, J Lin - 2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Serverless architectures organized around loosely-coupled function invocations represent
an emerging design for many applications. Recent work mostly focuses on user-facing …

Serverless edge computing: vision and challenges

MS Aslanpour, AN Toosi, C Cicconetti… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Born from a need for a pure “pay-per-use” model and highly scalable platform, the
“Serverless” paradigm emerged and has the potential to become a dominant way of building …

Caerus:{NIMBLE} task scheduling for serverless analytics

H Zhang, Y Tang, A Khandelwal, J Chen… - 18th USENIX Symposium …, 2021 - usenix.org
Serverless platforms facilitate transparent resource elasticity and fine-grained billing, making
them an attractive choice for data analytics. We find that while server-centric analytics …

Serverless computation with {OpenLambda}

S Hendrickson, S Sturdevant, T Harter… - 8th USENIX workshop …, 2016 - usenix.org
We present OpenLambda, a new, open-source platform for building next-generation web
services and applications in the burgeoningmodel of serverless computation. We describe …

Towards demystifying serverless machine learning training

J Jiang, S Gan, Y Liu, F Wang, G Alonso… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The appeal of serverless (FaaS) has triggered a growing interest on how to use it in data-
intensive applications such as ETL, query processing, or machine learning (ML). Several …