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 …

A holistic view on resource management in serverless computing environments: Taxonomy and future directions

A Mampage, S Karunasekera, R Buyya - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive deployment option for cloud
applications in recent times. The unique features of this computing model include rapid auto …

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 …

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) …

{ORION} and the three rights: Sizing, bundling, and prewarming for serverless {DAGs}

A Mahgoub, EB Yi, K Shankar, S Elnikety… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Serverless applications represented as DAGs have been growing in popularity. For many of
these applications, it would be useful to estimate the end-to-end (E2E) latency and to …

[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 …

Sebs: A serverless benchmark suite for function-as-a-service computing

M Copik, G Kwasniewski, M Besta… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud
services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building …

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 …

{FaaSNet}: Scalable and fast provisioning of custom serverless container runtimes at alibaba cloud function compute

A Wang, S Chang, H Tian, H Wang, H Yang… - 2021 USENIX Annual …, 2021 - usenix.org
Serverless computing, or Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), enables a new way of building and
scaling applications by allowing users to deploy fine-grained functions while providing fully …