Serverless Research Papers

This repo collects recent research papers on serverless. I would like to share my thoughts and annotations on those papers and discuss with anyone who shows interest.

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Papers

Virtualization

• Middleware'20 - Sledge: a Serverless-first, Light-weight Wasm Runtime for the edge
• ATC'20 - Faasm: Lightweight Isolation for Efficient Stateful Serverless Computing

Cold Start

• ATC'21 - FaaSNet: Scalable and Fast Provisioning of Custom Serverless Container Runtimes at Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
• ASPLOS’20 - Catalyzer: Sub-millisecond Startup for Serverless Computing with Initialization-less Booting
• ATC'18 - SOCK: Rapid Task Provisioning with Serverless-Optimized Containers
• HotCloud'19 - Agile Cold Starts for Scalable Serverless
• ATC'22 - Help Rather Than Recycle: Alleviating Cold Startup in Serverless Computing Through Inter-Function Container Sharing
• Middleware'20 - Prebaking Functions to Warm the Serverless Cold Start
• HotCloud'16 - Serverless Computation with OpenLambda
• EuroSys'19 - Replayable Execution Optimized for Page Sharing for a Managed Runtime Environment
• ATC'18 - SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing
• ASPLOS'21 - Nightcore: efficient and scalable serverless computing for latency-sensitive, interactive microservices
• EuroSys'20 - SEUSS: skip redundant paths to make serverless fast

Scheduling

• SoCC'22 - Owl: Performance-Aware Scheduling for Resource-Efficient Function-as-a-Service Cloud
• SoCC'22 - Cypress : Input size–Sensitive Container Provisioning and Request Scheduling for Serverless Platforms
• SoCC'22 - Hermod: Principled and Practical Scheduling for Serverless Functions

Heterogeneous, network and hardware

• OSDI'20 - Semeru: A Memory-Disaggregated Managed Runtime
• OSDI'23 - No Provisioned Concurrency: Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing

Machine Learning

• ASPLOS'22 - INFless: A Native Serverless System for Low-Latency, High-Throughput Inference
• SIGMOD'21 - Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training

Stateful and Storage

• VLDB'20 - Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service
• SOSP'21 - Boki: Stateful Serverless Computing with Shared Logs
• Fast'16 - Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers
• ASPLOS'21 - FaasCache: keeping serverless computing alive with greedy-dual caching

Orchestration and Workflow

• SoCC'21 - Kraken: Adaptive Container Provisioning for Deploying Dynamic DAGs in Serverless Platforms

Cost optimization and multi-cloud

• SIGOPS'21 - From Cloud Computing to Sky Computing