The Design, Productization, and Evaluation of a Serverless Workflow-Management System

The need for accessible and cost-effective IT resources has led to the<br/>near-universal adoption of cloud computing. Within cloud computing,<br/>serverless computing has emerged as a model that further abstracts away<br/>operational complexity of heterogeneous cloud resources. Central to this form of<br/>computing is Function-as-a-Service ...

Serverless is More: From PaaS to Present Cloud Computing

In the late-1950s, leasing time on an IBM 704 cost hundreds of dollars per minute. Today, cloud computing, that is, using IT as a service, on-demand and pay-per-use, is a widely used computing paradigm that offers large economies of scale. Born from a need to make platform as a service (PaaS) more accessible, fine-grained, and affordable,...