Function-as-a-Service

SIMPPO: A Scalable and Incremental Online Learning Framework for Serverless Resource Management

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers improved programmability for customers, yet it is not server-"less" and comes at the cost of more complex infrastructure management (e.g., resource provisioning and scheduling) for cloud providers. To …

A Mean-Field Game Approach to Cloud Resource Management with Function Approximation

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained increasing popularity for resource management in cloud services such as serverless computing. As self-interested users compete for shared resources in a cluster, the multi-tenancy nature of serverless platforms …

Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in Multi-tenant Serverless Platforms

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an emerging cloud computing paradigm that frees application developers from infrastructure management tasks such as resource provisioning and scaling. To reduce the tail latency of functions and improve …

Is Function-as-a-Service a Good Fit for Latency-Critical Services?

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is becoming an increasingly popular cloud-deployment paradigm for serverless computing that frees application developers from managing the infrastructure. At the same time, it allows cloud providers to assert control in …