serverless computing

Serverless Computing: With Great Freedom Comes Great Opportunity!

Marco Canini, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Apr 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2 H2

serverless computing

This talk introduces serverless computing, a programming model that has flourished in the last few years, mainly because it allows developers to concentrate on the application logic and not worry about scalability and resource management. Current serverless offerings give users limited flexibility for configuring the resources allocated to their function invocations. We take a principled approach to the problem of resource allocation for serverless functions, analyzing the effects of automating this choice in a way that leads to the best combination of performance and cost.