A SPEC RG cloud group’s vision on the performance challenges of FaaS cloud architectures

Erwin Van Eyk; Alexandru Iosup; Cristina L. Abad; Johannes Grohmann; Simon Eismann

doi:10.1145/3185768.3186308

A SPEC RG cloud group’s vision on the performance challenges of FaaS cloud architectures

Erwin Van Eyk
, Alexandru Iosup
, Cristina L. Abad
, Johannes Grohmann
, Simon Eismann

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As a key part of the serverless computing paradigm, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms enable users to run arbitrary functions without being concerned about operational issues. However, there are several performance-related issues surrounding the state-of-the-art FaaS platforms that can deter widespread adoption of FaaS, including sizeable overheads, unreliable performance, and new forms of the cost-performance trade-off. In this work we, the SPEC RG Cloud Group, identify six performance-related challenges that arise specifically in this FaaS model, and present our roadmap to tackle these problems in the near future. This paper aims at motivating the community to solve these challenges together.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICPE 2018
Subtitle of host publication	Companion of the 2018 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	21-24
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356299
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3185768.3186308
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2018 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 9 Apr 2018 → 13 Apr 2018

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Conference	9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	9/04/18 → 13/04/18

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Van Eyk, E, Iosup, A, Abad, CL, Grohmann, J & Eismann, S 2018, A SPEC RG cloud group’s vision on the performance challenges of FaaS cloud architectures. in ICPE 2018: Companion of the 2018 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 21-24, 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2018, Berlin, Germany, 9/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3185768.3186308

A SPEC RG cloud group’s vision on the performance challenges of FaaS cloud architectures. / Van Eyk, Erwin; Iosup, Alexandru; Abad, Cristina L. et al.
ICPE 2018: Companion of the 2018 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. p. 21-24.

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