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Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions

The Morning Paper

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., While being motivated by serverless use cases, there’s nothing especially serverless about the key-value store, Shredder , this paper reports on. A key challenge… is that serverless functions are stateless.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!) Serverless is a highly dynamic area and two years is a lifetime in this world. What is Serverless? I thought a few folks might be interested.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Of course, we believe in the transformative potential of NN throughout video applications, beyond video downscaling. On a CPU, we leveraged oneDnn to further reduce latency. Within a service, a Stratum function is a serverless layer dedicated to running stateless and computationally-intensive functions.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this.

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Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

The Morning Paper

Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’ Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. arXiv 2020.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". We achieve 5.5

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency.

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