Interim Report on Adaptive Event Dispatching in Serverless Computing Infrastructures

Abstract: Serverless computing is an emerging service model in distributed computing systems. The term captures cloud-based event-driven distributed application design and stems from its completely resource-transparent deployment model, i.e. serverless. This work thesisizes that adaptive event dispatching can improve current serverless platform resource efficiency by considering locality and dependencies. These design contemplations have also been formulated by Hendrickson et al., which identifies the requirement that "Serverless load balancers must make low-latency decisions while considering session, code and data locality". This interim report investigates the economical importance of the emerging trend and asserts that existing serverless platforms still do not optimize for data locality, whereas a variety of scheduling methods are available from distributed computing research which have proven to increase resource efficiency.