Lecture Function as a Service

Notes for Lecture from Boris Grot

Posted by Kylin on July 13, 2023

Poster intro

  • serverless

a collection of functions : dont have states

Challenge: communication bottleneck

we dont have severless framework for academic research

vHive: https://github.com/vhive-serverless/vHive

How vHive solve Cold Start (start a new function instance is slow)

State-of-the-art solution: start from a snapshot, checkpoint of microVM

conncetion time dominate the delay time of cold start

same take away 80% of the storage footprint