Expressing parallelism and coordination is central for modern concurrent programming.
Many mechanisms exist for expressing both parallelism and coordination. However, the …

Microsoft Orleans is a popular open source distributed programming framework and platform
which invented the virtual actor model, and has since evolved into an actor-oriented …

Portals is a serverless, distributed programming model that blends the exactly-once
processing guarantees of stateful dataflow streaming frameworks with the message-driven …

Systems performing large data-parallel computations, including online analytical processing
(OLAP) systems like Druid and search engines like Elasticsearch, are increasingly being …

Data-intensive systems are the backbone of today's computing and are responsible for
sha** data centers. Over the years, cloud providers have relied on three principles to …

The actor model has gained increasing popularity. However, it lacks support for complex
state management tasks, such as enforcing foreign key constraints and ensuring data …

Serverless computing promises to significantly simplify cloud computing by providing
Functions-as-a-Service where invocations of functions, triggered by events, are …

This paper proposes a continuum-aware programming model enabling the execution of
application workflows across the compute continuum: cloud, fog and edge resources. It …

Serverless computing promises to significantly simplify cloud computing by providing
Functions-as-a-Service where invocations of functions, triggered by events, are …