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Unlocking True Elasticity for the Cloud-Native Era with Dandelion

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Elasticity is fundamental to cloud computing. An elastic platform can quickly allocate resources to match the demand of each workload as it arrives, rather than pre-provisioning resources to meet performance objectives. However, even serverless platforms — which boot sandboxes in 10s to 100s of milliseconds — are not sufficiently elastic to avoid pre-provisioning expensive resources. Today's FaaS platforms provision many extra, idle sandboxes in memory to reduce the occurrence of slow, cold starts. Initializing securely isolated sandboxes with a POSIX-like computing environment that today's cloud users expect is slow as it requires booting a guest OS and configuring networking.

Source: ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)

DOI: 10.1145/3731569.3764803

Authors: Tom Kuchler, Pinghe Li, Yazhuo Zhang, Lazar Cvetković, Boris Goranov, Tobias Stocker, Leon Thomm, Simone Kalbermatter, Tim Notter, Andrea Lattuada, Ana Klimovic

Institutions: ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Language: English

Topic: Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

OpenAlex ID: W4414736007

FWCI: 4.784

Cites: 15

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10