A review of resource management strategies for serverless computing

What is it about?

Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive deployment option for cloud applications. The unique features of this computing model include rapid auto-scaling, strong isolation, fine-grained billing options and access to a massive service ecosystem. Effective management of computing resources has always gained a lot of attention among researchers. In this article, we identify the major aspects covering the concept of resource management in serverless environments. We also propose a taxonomy of influencing factors which include characteristics of system design, workload attributes and stakeholder expectations. We focus on serverless environments deployed across edge, fog and cloud computing networks. We analyse existing works discussing aspects of serverless resource management using this taxonomy. This article further identifies gaps in literature and highlights future research directions.

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