Status of Serverless Computing and Function-as-a-Service(FaaS) in Industry and Research
Geoffrey C. Fox, Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy, Aleksander, Slominski
TL;DR
This paper reviews the current state of serverless computing and FaaS, highlighting industry and research perspectives, key issues, and future directions discussed during the WoSC 2017 workshop.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive summary of discussions, comments, and technical terms related to serverless computing and FaaS from a major industry and research workshop.
Findings
Identified key challenges in serverless computing
Summarized industry and research perspectives
Outlined future research directions
Abstract
This whitepaper summarizes issues raised during the First International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2017 held June 5th 2017 and especially in the panel and associated discussion that concluded the workshop. We also include comments from the keynote and submitted papers. A glossary at the end (section 8) defines many technical terms used in this report.
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