SOCK: Rapid Task Provisioning with Serverless-Optimized Containers

By Edward Oakes, Leon Yang, Dennis Zhou, Kevin Houck, T. Harter, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2018

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Unleashing the Power of Edge-Cloud Generative AI in Mobile Networks: A Survey of AIGC Services (2023, unknown): “and dependencies before execution, is time-consuming [171].”
SPINN: synergistic progressive inference of neural networks over device and cloud (2020, methodology): “Nevertheless, in a typical deployment, we would envision a caching proxy serving the models with RDMA to the CPU or GPU of the end server, in a virtualised or serverless environment so as to tackle the cold-start problem [57, 77].”
FaasCache: keeping serverless computing alive with greedy-dual caching (2021, background): “Reducing this function łstartup overheadž is a key challenge in serverless computing [2, 6, 34, 46].”
Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing (2019, background): “Cloud providers [14, 15], as well as others [58, 59] have recently focused on reducing the startup time by developing new lightweight isolation mechanisms.”
Catalyzer: Sub-millisecond Startup for Serverless Computing with Initialization-less Booting (2020, methodology): “Wrapped programs (consist of the wrapper and handler function) execute safely within sandboxes, which can be containers [5, 40] or virtual machines (VM) [6, 8, 10].”
Faasm: Lightweight Isolation for Efficient Stateful Serverless Computing (2020, result): “SOCK [52] improves the container boot process to achieve cold starts in the low hundreds of milliseconds; similar results can be achieved with optimised VMs and unikernels [43,45].”
SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing (2018, background): “Pipsqueak [46] and its follow-up work SOCK [47] create a cache of pre-warmed Python interpreters, so that functions can be launched with an interpreter that has already loaded the necessary libraries.”
What serverless computing is and should become (2021, background): “26 There is probably still much room for improvement in these areas, though there is also evidence that performance optimization and isolation for security are fundamentally at odds.”