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XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta

micahlerner.com XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta Published January 23, 2024 Found something wrong? Submit a pull request! This is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). If you’d like to receive regular upda...

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Hasnain says:

If it’s the system I think it is (99% sure) it was a pretty cool one. Glad to see this published.

“The XFaaS paper is unique in characterizing a serverless system running at immmense scale. While previous research has touched on this topic, none have provided specific numbers of utilization, likely omitted due to privacy or business concerns (although Serverless in the Wild comes close).

At the same time, the data on XFaaS comes with caveats, as the system is able to make design choices under a different set of constraints than serverless platforms from public cloud providers.”

Posted on 2024-01-31T07:05:45+0000