Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Open Problems

By Ioana Baldini, Paul C. Castro, K. Chang, P. Cheng, Stephen J. Fink, Vatche Isahagian, N. Mitchell, Vinod Muthusamy, Rodric M. Rabbah, Aleksander Slominski and 1 more. Research Advances in Cloud Computing, 2017

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Serverless computing has emerged as a new compelling paradigm for the deployment of applications and services. It represents an evolution of cloud programming models, abstractions, and platforms, and is a testament to the maturity and wide adoption of cloud technologies. In this chapter, we survey existing serverless platforms from industry, academia, and open-source projects, identify key characteristics and use cases, and describe technical challenges and open problems.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing (2019, background): “Researchers have already begun to address issues raised above and to explore how to improve serverless platforms and the performance of workloads that run on them [48,49].”
• Computation Offloading Toward Edge Computing (2019, background): “However, there is still room for improvement in the aspects of flexibility, elasticity, and security [150].”
• AI for Next Generation Computing: Emerging Trends and Future Directions (2022, neutral): “Serverless computing infrastructure enables automated API support using AI and database connectivity for every service that requires it, as stated previously [134].”