3 papers
cs.DC2025
Universal Workers: A Vision for Eliminating Cold Starts in Serverless Computing
Saman Akbari, Manfred Hauswirth
Serverless computing enables developers to deploy code without managing infrastructure, but suffers from cold start overhead when initializing new function instances. Existing solu…
cs.DC2025
Hiku: Pull-Based Scheduling for Serverless Computing
Saman Akbari, Manfred Hauswirth
Serverless computing promises convenient abstractions for developing and deploying functions that execute in response to events. In such Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, sch…
cs.DC2025
Sampling in Cloud Benchmarking: A Critical Review and Methodological Guidelines
Saman Akbari, Manfred Hauswirth
Cloud benchmarks suffer from performance fluctuations caused by resource contention, network latency, hardware heterogeneity, and other factors along with decisions taken in the be…