DreamServer
Thomas Knauth, Christof W. Fetzer · 2014
Today's cloud offerings, while promising flexibility, fail to deliver this flexibility to lower-end services with frequent, minute-long idle times. We present DreamServer, an architecture and combination of technologies to deploy virtualized services just-in-time: virtualized web applications are suspended when idle and resurrected only when the next request arrives. We demonstrate that stateful VM resume can be accomplished in less than one second for select applications.