Enabling In-Vitro Serverless Systems Research
Dmitrii Ustiugov, Dohyun Park, Lazar Cvetković, Mihajlo Djokić, Hongyu Hè, Boris Grot, Ana Klimovic · 2023
Serverless is an increasingly popular cloud computing paradigm that has stimulated new systems research opportunities. However, developing and evaluating serverless systems in a research setting (i.e., "in-vitro", without access to a large-scale production cluster and real workloads) is challenging yet vital for innovation. Recently, several serverless providers have released production traces consisting of large sets of functions with their invocation inter-arrival time, execution time, and memory footprint distributions. However, executing the workload synthesized from these traces requires a massive cluster, making experiments expensive and time-consuming.