The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of
literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks …

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 …

The monolithic server model where a server is the unit of deployment, operation, and failure
is meeting its limits in the face of several recent hardware and application trends. To improve …

Intel SGX hardware enables applications to protect themselves from potentially-malicious
OSes or hypervisors. In cloud computing and other systems, many users and applications …

Unikernels are famous for providing excellent performance in terms of boot times,
throughput and memory consumption, to name a few metrics. However, they are infamous …

Modern OSes provide a rich set of services to applications, primarily accessible via the
system call API, to support the ever growing functionality of contemporary software …

Unikernels are minimal single-purpose virtual machines. They are highly popular in the
research domain due to the benefits they provide. A barrier to their widespread adoption is …

The virtues of security, reliability, and extensibility have made state-of-the-art microkernels
prevalent in embedded and safety-critical scenarios. However, they face performance and …

We present uFS, a user-level filesystem semi-microkernel. uFS takes advantage of a high-
performance storage development kit to realize a fully-functional, crash-consistent, highly …

Edge computing is a recent computing paradigm that brings cloud services closer to the
client. Among other features, edge computing offers extremely low client/server latencies. To …