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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Characterizing serverless platforms with serverlessbench

T Yu, Q Liu, D Du, Y Xia, B Zang, Z Lu, P Yang… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing promises auto-scalability and cost-efficiency (in" pay-as-you-go"
manner) for high-productive software development. Because of its virtue, serverless …

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 …