A Survey on Serverless Computing

TL;DR

This survey reviews the evolution, principles, and research contributions in serverless computing, highlighting its role in enabling agile, event-driven applications with a pay-as-you-go model.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of serverless computing research, categorizing key developments and identifying open challenges in the field.

Findings

Serverless computing enables highly scalable, event-driven applications.

Research has focused on resource management, security, and performance optimization.

The field is rapidly evolving with ongoing innovations and challenges.

Abstract

The Internet is responsible for accelerating growth in several fields such as digital media, healthcare, the military. Furthermore, the Internet was founded on the principle of allowing clients to communicating with servers. However, serverless computing is one such field that tries to break free from this paradigm. Event-driven compute services allow users to build more agile applications using capacity provisioning and a pay-for-value billing model. This paper provides a formal account of the research contributions in the field of Serverless computing.