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Large-scale workflow placement in serverless computing using integer nonlinear programming
Joshua Adamek, Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer +3
Serverless edge computing has become a powerful cloud framework that enables the execution of large workflows without the need for the user to manage the underlying servers and edg…
New Kids: An Architecture and Performance Investigation of Second-Generation Serverless Platforms
Trever Schirmer, Aris Wiegand, Lucca di Benedetto +4
With the ever-increasing usage of serverless computing in both industry and academia, it is essential to understand the mechanisms that power the underlying platforms. As serverles…
Provuse: Platform-Side Function Fusion for Performance and Efficiency in FaaS Environments
Niklas Kowallik, Natalie Carl, Leon Pöllinger +3
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide scalable and cost-efficient execution but suffer from increased latency and resource overheads in complex applications comprising mul…
Serverless Abstractions for Short-Running, Lightweight Streams
Natalie Carl, Niklas Kowallik, Constantin Stahl +3
Serverless computing and stream processing represent two dominant paradigms for event-driven data processing, yet both make assumptions that render them inefficient for short-runni…
Towards Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing with Hardware Isolation
Natalie Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach
Serverless computing provides just-in-time infrastructure provisioning with rapid elasticity and a finely-grained pricing model. As full control of resource allocation is in the ha…