Análise de Mecanismos de Serverless Computing em Ambientes de Nuvens Computacionais

• Matheus N. da Silva UFPB
• Marcus Carvalho UFPB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2019.7791

Abstract

The serverless computing model is trending nowadays, because of its easy adoption and possibility of reducing costs. However, as users are not in charge of managing servers, they may face performance issues related to coldstarts, when the provider disables an idle application and new requests have to wait until it is deployed in a server and enabled again. The objective of this work is to analyze coldstarts in serverless computing, aiming to understand the time an application stays idle until the provider disables it, the overhead implied by coldstarts on response times and the impact of application's memory size on these metrics.

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