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 …

The serverless computing survey: A technical primer for design architecture

Z Li, L Guo, J Cheng, Q Chen, BS He… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The development of cloud infrastructures inspires the emergence of cloud-native computing.
As the most promising architecture for deploying microservices, serverless computing has …

Firecracker: Lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

A Agache, M Brooker, A Iordache, A Liguori… - … USENIX symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software
in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of …

Faasm: Lightweight isolation for efficient stateful serverless computing

S Shillaker, P Pietzuch - … Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 20 …, 2020 - usenix.org
Serverless computing is an excellent fit for big data processing because it can scale quickly
and cheaply to thousands of parallel functions. Existing serverless platforms isolate …

Cloudburst: Stateful functions-as-a-service

V Sreekanti, C Wu, XC Lin, J Schleier-Smith… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Nightcore: efficient and scalable serverless computing for latency-sensitive, interactive microservices

Z Jia, E Witchel - Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The microservice architecture is a popular software engineering approach for building
flexible, large-scale online services. Serverless functions, or function as a service (FaaS) …

Icebreaker: Warming serverless functions better with heterogeneity

RB Roy, T Patel, D Tiwari - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing, an emerging computing model, relies on" warming up" functions prior
to its anticipated execution for faster and cost-effective service to users. Unfortunately …

[HTML][HTML] {SONIC}: Application-aware data passing for chained serverless applications

A Mahgoub, L Wang, K Shankar, Y Zhang… - 2021 USENIX Annual …, 2021 - s.usenix.org
The conference papers and full proceedings are available to registered attendees now and
will be available to everyone beginning Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Paper abstracts and …

Boki: Stateful serverless computing with shared logs

Z Jia, E Witchel - Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Boki is a new serverless runtime that exports a shared log API to serverless functions. Boki
shared logs enable stateful serverless applications to manage their state with durability …

Faster and cheaper serverless computing on harvested resources

Y Zhang, Í Goiri, GI Chaudhry, R Fonseca… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of programming, fast
elasticity, and fine-grained billing. However, the serverless provider still needs to provision …