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A much needed paper which goes into the programming model in serverless rather than the operational model. Although, the first cases study is obviously bad for
by tirumaraiselvan 8y ago
A much needed paper which goes into the programming model in serverless rather than the operational model. Although, the first cases study is obviously bad for serverless (training a ML model) whereas the second case study does not indicate bad results (using trained ML model) as half a second latency is acceptable. As the paper itself quotes:
`One might argue that FaaS encourages a new, event-driven distributed programming model based on global state.`
Yes, exactly. It is not made for cluster computing or data-centric applications. It is made for making applications more modular, atomic and compositional with the upside of less ops and more scale and the downside of lower performance.
- DATACOMMANDER 8y agoI think that the authors of the paper would say that, ideally, serverless would be ubiquitous, the obvious choice for the vast majority of use cases. A pipe dream? Perhaps. But that’s the dream, and we’ll never be able to make the dream a reality unless people write papers like this one that highlight the work that separates where we are from where we want to be.