Speech: Towards (Sub-)Millisecond Serverless Computing: Characterization, Optimization and Outlooking

Abstract:

Serverless computing promises cost-efficiency and elasticity for high-productive software development. To achieve this, the serverless computing platform must address two challenges: strong isolation between function instances, and extremely low startup latency to ensure user experience. In this talk, I will first present a characterization of state-of-the-art serverless platform and derive several key metrics, which collectly forms a systematic methodology and a benchmark called severlessbench. Then, I will show how a serverless platform can be optimized for (sub-)millisecond startup latency for both normal and condential severless computing. Finally, I will present an outlook on challenges and opportunities of serverless computing, including how to make it secure and efficient for cloud and edge computing.

Biography:

Haibo Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, who directs both the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS) and the Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education of China for Domain Operating Systems. His main research areas are operating systems and distributed systems, and has won the First Prize of Technical Invention by the Ministry of Education, China Youth Science and Technology Award, President's Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CCF Young Scientist Award, National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China, etc. He is currently the Chair of ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys, the Vice Chair of the Special Committee on System Software of the China Computer Federation, seves on the editorial board member and co-chair of Special Sections of Communications of the ACM, and the editorial board member of ACM Transactions on Storage. He was the general co-chair of ACM SOSP 2017, Vice PC-Chair of ICDCS 2020 and has received Best Paper Awards from ASPLOS, EuroSys, VEE, ICPP and APSys.