[HTML][HTML] Function-as-a-service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review

J Scheuner, P Leitner - Journal of Systems and Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one form of the serverless cloud computing
paradigm and is defined through FaaS platforms (eg, AWS Lambda) executing event …

Survey on serverless computing

HB Hassan, SA Barakat, QI Sarhan - Journal of Cloud Computing, 2021 - Springer
Serverless computing has gained importance over the last decade as an exciting new field,
owing to its large influence in reducing costs, decreasing latency, improving scalability, and …

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 …

Faster and cheaper serverless computing on harvested resources

Y Zhang, Í Goiri, GI Chaudhry, R Fonseca… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease of programming, fast
elasticity, and fine-grained billing. However, the serverless provider still needs to provision …

Serverless computing: One step forward, two steps back

JM Hellerstein, J Faleiro, JE Gonzalez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Serverless computing offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you
go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing …

Catalyzer: Sub-millisecond startup for serverless computing with initialization-less booting

D Du, T Yu, Y **a, B Zang, G Yan, C Qin, Q Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Serverless computing promises cost-efficiency and elasticity for high-productive software
development. To achieve this, the serverless sandbox system must address two challenges …

Dorylus: Affordable, scalable, and accurate {GNN} training with distributed {CPU} servers and serverless threads

J Thorpe, Y Qiao, J Eyolfson, S Teng, G Hu… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
A graph neural network (GNN) enables deep learning on structured graph data. There are
two major GNN training obstacles: 1) it relies on high-end servers with many GPUs which …

[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 …

Pocket: Elastic ephemeral storage for serverless analytics

A Klimovic, Y Wang, P Stuedi, A Trivedi… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2018 - usenix.org
Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular, enabling users to quickly launch
thousands of shortlived tasks in the cloud with high elasticity and fine-grain billing. These …

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 …