Serverless computing: What it is, and what it is not?

Kounev, Samuel, Herbst, Nikolas, Abad, Cristina L., Iosup, Alexandru, Foster, Ian, Shenoy, Prashant, Rana, Omer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-2646 and Chien, Andrew A. 2023. Serverless computing: What it is, and what it is not? Communications of the ACM 66 (9) , pp. 80-92. 10.1145/3587249

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Abstract

Full automation of IT infrastructure and the delivery of efficient IT operations as billed services have been long-standing goals of the computing industry since at least the 1960s. A newcomer—serverless computing—emerged in the late 2010s with characteristics claimed to be different from those of established IT services, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) clouds. Even though serverless computing has gained significant attention in industry and academia over the past five years, there is still no consensus about its unique distinguishing characteristics and precise understanding of how these characteristics differ from classical cloud computing. What is serverless computing, and what are its implications?

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISSN:	0001-0782
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 August 2023
Date of Acceptance:	25 August 2023
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2023 12:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/162050

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