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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jose Faleiro, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Alexey Tumanov, Chenggang Wu

Abstract

Serverless computing offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing, which place its autoscaling potential at odds with dominant trends in modern computing: notably data-centric and distributed computing, but also open source and custom hardware. Put together, these gaps make current serverless offerings a bad fit for cloud innovation and particularly bad for data systems innovation. In addition to pinpointing some of the main shortfalls of current serverless architectures, we raise a set of challenges we believe must be met to unlock the radical potential that the cloud---with its exabytes of storage and millions of cores---should offer to innovative developers.

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8 pages, draft for CIDR 2019
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cs.DCDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.DBDatabases

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  1. Ask HN: How are you going to grow your business in 2019 1 comment

    • Have you tried doing serverless? I have and my experience with it was quite bad. Here are other people sharing the same opinion https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03651.pdf

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  2. Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 2 comments

    • I loved the article https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03651.pdf It mentions two temporary bottlenecks: 1. Functions can run only for 15 minutes and experience cold-starts. 2. You can't use specialized hardware like GPUs. It also mentions two fundamental bottlenecks: 1. Serverless…

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    • Here's a web version if you're on a phone: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1812.03651/

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