Seminar TODAY

[Jan Kofron]

Dear all,

Let me invite you to the first seminar in this semester that will take place today, on Tuesday, 
March 26, at 14:00 in S7 [1]. The seminar will be presented by *Cristina Abad Robalino* from Escuela 
Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil-Ecuador. The abstract is attached below.

[1] https://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/seminar/

Thanks, best regards!
Jan

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Title: *Designing Serverless Platforms to Support Emerging Applications*

Abstract: Serverless computing offerings from cloud providers have gained significant traction in 
recent years due to the advantages that these platforms bring with their flexible pricing models, 
built-in scalability, and minimal operational requirements. In a recent survey of serverless use 
cases, we found a wide variety of applications that depend on these services, including implementing 
the core functionality at the backend of mobile applications, automating the DevOps tasks of complex 
distributed applications, real-time processing of IoT streaming data, and scientific applications. 
To properly support these applications, the platforms should be fast, self-managing, and provide 
support for diverse QoS requirements. As a result, novel improvements to serverless platforms are 
rapidly being proposed and adopted. Evaluating these solutions necessitates application-based, 
workload-aware benchmarking tools that the community can rely on. This talk addresses these 
challenges and our research efforts on tackling them, presenting a performance engineering 
perspective about the current state and future challenges of serverless computing research. I will 
describe our solutions in resource management for serverless platforms, focusing on solutions that 
improve performance or reduce costs via scheduling, caching, and right-sizing of resources, along 
with our ongoing efforts in developing an application-driven serverless benchmark.


-- 
Jan Kofron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
Malostranske namesti 25
118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 95155 4285
http://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/~kofron
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