2022/06/24 by Jinfeng Wen, Wen, Jinfeng, Zhenpeng Chen +5 · 6 citations
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.12275
openalex publication_date 2022/06/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing paradigm, being adopted to develop a wide range of software applications. It allows developers to focus on the application logic in the granularity of function, thereby freeing developers from tedious and error-prone infrastructure management. Meanwhile, its unique characteristic poses new challenges to the development and deployment of serverless-based applications. To tackle these challenges, enormous research efforts have been devoted. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review to characterize the current research state of serverless computing. Specifically, this paper covers 164 papers on 17 research directions of serverless computing, including performance optimization, programming framework, application migration, multi-cloud development, testing and debugging, etc. It also derives research trends, focus, and commonly-used platforms for serverless computing, as well as promising research opportunities.