awesome-serverless-research
A curated list of awesome serverless research works, including papers and open-sourced projects.
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Security
- Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms (ATC'18)
- PIE: Confidential Serverless Made Efficient with Plug-In Enclaves (ISCA'21) - The paper presents PIE, a hardware extension on SGX to boost startup latency of enclaves to support serverless computing.
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Stateful serverless computing
- Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service (VLDB'20) - The paper presents Cloudburst, a stateful FaaS platform that provides Python-like programming models. Cloudburst leverages Anna, a scalable key-value store, to achieve low-latency mutable state and communication.
- Boki: Stateful Serverless Computing with Shared Logs (SOSP'21) - Boki solves many problems on stateful serverless computing, including state consistency, fault tolerance, and high-level abstractions for stateful serverless applications. The major novelity is its shared log design. The system is open-sourced at [github](https://github.com/ut-osa/boki). And you can quickly learn the high-level ideas through its [SOSP video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgfLK1p3dx4).
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Optimizations
- Catalyzer: Sub-millisecond Startup for ServerlessComputing with Initialization-less Booting (ASPLOS'20) - Catalyzer proposes init-less, which leverages fork/snapshots to skip the initialization costs during startup, and can achieve <1ms startup latency in the best case. The system is based on virtualization based sandboxes, gVisor.
- FaasCache: Keeping Serverless Computing Alive with Greedy-Dual Caching (ASPLOS'21)
- Faastlane: Accelerating Function-as-a-Service Workflows (ATC'21) - Faastlane aims to optimize the communication latency between functions, which is significant for function chain (or workflows in the title). The major idea is to use thread-level isolation, that means different functions are located in the same process, and Faastlane utilizes Intel MPK to provide isolation between different threads.
- SOCK: Rapid Task Provisioning with Serverless-Optimized Containers (ATC'18)
- Replayable Execution Optimized for Page Sharing for a Managed Runtime Environment (Eurosys'19) - Replayable optimizes CRIU for docker containers to boost container startup latency and reduce memory costs.
- SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing (ATC'18)
- SEUSS: skip redundant paths to make serverless fast (Eurosys'20) - SEUSS utilizes similir ideas as Catalyzer and Replayable to boost serverless latency (especially for startup latency) using fork/snapshots. The system is based on unikernels.
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Review
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Serverless System and Framework
- Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (NSDI'20)
- Faasm: Lightweight Isolation for Efficient Stateful Serverless Computing (ATC'20) - Compared with other runtimes, Faasm utilizes WebAssembly for isolation, which achieves high performance. Code available at [github](https://github.com/faasm/faasm)
- Nightcore: Efficient and Scalable Serverless Computing for Latency-Sensitive, Interactive Microservices (ASPLOS'21)
- Pocket: Elastic Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Analytics (OSDI'18)
- From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers (ATC'19)
- Sequoia: enabling quality-of-service in serverless computing(SOCC'20) - Sequoia is a serverless scheduling and allocation framework, which aims to improve the management in serverless computing.
- Understanding Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Analytics （ATC'18)
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Heterogeneous Serverless
- Llama: A Heterogeneous & Serverless Framework for Auto-Tuning Video Analytics Pipelines (ACM SoCC'21) - A system to schedule heterogeneous resources in the case of serverless.
- Serverless computing on heterogeneous computers (ASPLOS'22) - The first work to propose heterogeneous serverless systems based on CPU, DPU and FPGA. Future works may follow the line to support GPU and many new accelerators for serverless.
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Benchmarking
- Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider (ATC'20) - SIW is an industry paper by Microsoft Azure. You can learn about real-world issues/techniques of serverless computing from it.
- Characterizing Serverless Platforms with ServerlessBench (SOCC'20) - This paper presents ServerlessBench, which is the first and state-of-the-art serverless benchmarks. The benchmark suite is open-sourced at [github](https://github.com/SJTU-IPADS/ServerlessBench). The paper utilizes the benchmark suit to analyze several serverless platforms, including AWS lambda, OpenWhisk, Fn, and others, and proposes several new insights/implications that can lead future research works.
- Benchmarking, Analysis, and Optimization of Serverless Function Snapshots (ASPLOS'21) - This work introduces one system and one optimization. The system is vHive, an open-source and full-stack serverless framework. The framework is built based on several state-of-the-art infastructure, e.g., Firecracker. Besides, the paper proposes an optimization, called REAP, which is a software mechanism for serverless hosts that records functions' stable working set of guest memory pages and proactively prefetches it from disk into memory.
- Architectural Implications of Function-as-a-Service Computing (Micro'19)
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Reliability and Fault Tolerance
- Fault-tolerant and transactional stateful serverless workflows (OSDI'20) - The paper presents Beldi, a library and runtime system for writing fault-tolerant stateful serverless functions. Code available at [github](https://github.com/eniac/Beldi)
- A fault-tolerance shim for serverless computing (Eurosys'20) - The paper presents AFT, an atomic fault tolerance shim for serverless functions. AFT ensures atomic visibility of updates by enforcing read atomic isolation guarantee.
- Formal Foundations of Serverless Computing (OOPSLA'19) - It is the best paper of OOPSLA'19, which presents formal model to analyze (and prove) the reliability of serverless computing.
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Applications
- Shuffling, Fast and Slow: Scalable Analytics on Serverless Infrastructure (NSDI'19) - This paper presents Locus, a serverless analytics system combines cheap but slow storage with fast but expensive storage to balance performance and costs.
- Dorylus: Affordable, Scalable, and Accurate GNN Training with Distributed CPU Servers and Serverless Threads (OSDI'20) - This paper presents Dorylus, a distributed system for training GNNs by utilizing serverless computing. Dorylus can achieve even better performance and low costs than CPU and GPU-based systems.
- The serverless shell (Middleware'21) - This paper presents an interesting serverless applications, which is a shell (called sshell), that allow users to run shell scripts on a serverless platform. The sourced code is avialable at [github](https://github.com/crucial-project/serverless-shell).
- Sprocket: A Serverless Video Processing Framework (SOCC'18) - This paper presents Sprocket, a configurable, stage-based, scalable, serverless video processing framework that exploits intra-video parallelism to achieve low latency.
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Other Recommended Lists
- Awesome Serverless - A curated list of awesome services, solutions and resources for serverless / nobackend applications.
- awesome-serverless-security - A curated list of awesome serverless security resources such as (e)books, articles, whitepapers, blogs and research papers.
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Other Related Works
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Programming Models
- Kappa: a programming framework for serverless computing - Kappa proposes a new programming model for serverless computing, which utilizes *checkpointing* to support long running services, and reuse python features to manage concurrency. It is open-sourced at [kappa](https://kappa.cs.berkeley.edu) and [github-repo](https://github.com/NetSys/kappa).
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