Serverless computing is an excellent fit for big data processing because it can scale quickly
and cheaply to thousands of parallel functions. Existing serverless platforms isolate …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become an increasingly popular way for users to deploy
their applications without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. However …

Enterprises are moving their business-critical workloads to public clouds at an accelerating
pace. Multi-tenancy is a crucial tenet for cloud data service providers allowing them to …

In FaaS workflows, a set of functions implement application logic by interacting and
exchanging data among themselves. Contemporary FaaS platforms execute each function …

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy Page 1 72 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE
ACM | SEPTEMBER 2020 | VOL. 63 | NO. 9 review articles DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ARE …

Serverless computing has grown in popularity in recent years, with an increasing number of
applications being built on Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms. By default, FaaS …

Recent years have seen Kubernetes emerge as a primary choice for container orchestration.
Kubernetes largely targets the cloud environment but new use cases require performant …

Serverless is an attractive platform for a variety of applications in the cloud due to its promise
of elasticity, low cost, and fast deployment. Instead of using traditional virtual machine …

Suboptimal scheduling decisions in operating systems, networking stacks, and application
runtimes are often responsible for poor application performance, including higher latency …