Halfmoon: Log-optimal fault-tolerant stateful serverless computing

S Qi, X Liu, X Jin - Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing separates function execution from state management. Simple retry-
based fault tolerance might corrupt the shared state with duplicate updates. Existing …

TrEnv: Transparently Share Serverless Execution Environments Across Different Functions and Nodes

J Huang, MX Zhang, T Ma, Z Liu, S Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing is renowned for its computation elasticity, yet its full potential is often
constrained by the requirement for functions to operate within local and dedicated …

Optimus: Warming Serverless ML Inference via Inter-Function Model Transformation

Z Hong, J Lin, S Guo, S Luo, W Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless ML inference is an emerging cloud computing paradigm for low-cost, easy-to-
manage inference services. In serverless ML inference, each call is executed in a container; …

Rewind & Discard: Improving software resilience using isolated domains

M Gülmez, T Nyman, C Baumann… - 2023 53rd Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Well-known defenses exist to detect and mitigate common faults and memory safety
vulnerabilities in software. Yet, many of these mitigations do not address the challenge of …

Pronghorn: Effective Checkpoint Orchestration for Serverless Hot-Starts

S Kohli, S Kharbanda, R Bruno, J Carreira… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing allows developers to deploy and scale stateless functions in
ephemeral workers easily. As a result, serverless computing has been widely used for many …

Expeditious {High-Concurrency}{MicroVM}{SnapStart} in Persistent Memory with an Augmented Hypervisor

X Pang, Y Zhang, L Liu, D Cheng, C Xu… - 2024 USENIX Annual …, 2024 - usenix.org
The industry has embraced snapshotting to tackle the cold starts and efficiently manage
numerous short-lived functions for microservice-native architectures, serverless computing …

Enabling secure and efficient data analytics pipeline evolution with trusted execution environment

H Gao, C Yue, TTA Dinh, Z Huang, BC Ooi - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Modern data analytics pipelines are highly dynamic, as they are constantly monitored and
fine-tuned by both data engineers and scientists. Recent systems managing pipelines ease …

Serverless Confidential Containers: Challenges and Opportunities

C Segarra, T Feldman-Fitzthum, D Buono… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing allows users to execute pieces of code (so called functions) on-
demand in the cloud without having to provision any hardware resources. However, by …

SeSeMI: Secure Serverless Model Inference on Sensitive Data

G Hu, Y Wu, G Chen, TTA Dinh, BC Ooi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11640, 2024 - arxiv.org
Model inference systems are essential for implementing end-to-end data analytics pipelines
that deliver the benefits of machine learning models to users. Existing cloud-based model …

Holistic cold-start management in serverless computing cloud with deep learning for time series

T Nguyen - 2024 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing is the most innovative and affordable cloud service model that
improves three strategic business objectives: flexibility, efficiency, and innovation …