The rise of serverless computing

Abstract

The server is dead, long live the server. BY PAUL CASTRO, VATCHE ISHAKIAN, VINOD MUTHUSAMY, AND ALEKSANDER SLOMINSKI key insights ˽ Serverless computing takes the original promises of cloud computing and delivers true pay only for resources used with almost infinite scalability while hiding the details of how servers are used and maintained. ˽ Serverless computing is a new cloud computing paradigm with enormous economic growth potential. ˽ Serverless computing allows the developer to focus on developing business logic and gives the cloud provider additional control over optimizing resources. ˽ There are many technical challenges and opportunities for research.

Serverless Applications: Why, When, and How?

“…Serverless computing is any computing platform that hides server usage from developers and runs code on-demand automatically scaled and billed only for the time the code is running [2]. Sidebar 1 exemplifies how serverless can be used to implement the mobile backend for a social media app.…”

Experimental Analysis of the Application of Serverless Computing to IoT Platforms

“…In [ 8 ] the authors present a general description of serverless computing and its relevant programming model, pointing to Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms as the concretisation of serverless computing principles. As a future promising research activity they identify the application of the serverless model at the edge as natural connection between serverless functions and Edge Computing, in particular for IoT.…”

“…In this paper we explore the suitability of the so-called serverless computing [ 8 ] for deploying IoT-based services. It leverages the success of virtualization technologies, based either on virtual machines (VMs) or containers, and has stimulated cloud industry to pursue a new architectural design exploiting virtualization to deploy platform as-a-service.…”

Next-generation Blockchain-Enabled Virtualized Cloud Security Solutions: Review and Open Challenges

“…These vulnerabilities and limitations require a macro-level solution for identified common cloud infrastructure level security threats and concerns to provide secure, efficient and transparent services to cloud end users. Cloud vendors and CSPs are putting substantial costs and exertions in securing their existing virtualized cloud infrastructures to achieve maximum compliance with the prevailing industry security services management standards (e.g., Amazon Cloud lately accomplished the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard [PCIDSS] compliance certification and Microsoft Azure Cloud prerogatives compliance with (ISO27001 security standards) [42]. However, the overall security of cloud-based applications and services still needs better implementation and configuration services as well as advanced security services with fine-grained access controls bonded between virtualized services such as IaaS, SaaS and PaaS and cloud virtualization platforms.…”