Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Communications of the ACM

, volume 66 , issue 9 , pages 80-92

Serverless Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not?

Samuel Kounev ¹

Nikolas Herbst ¹

Cristina L. Abad ²

Alexandru Iosup ³

Ian Foster ⁴

PRASHANT SHENOY ⁵

Omer Rana ⁶

Andrew A. Chien ⁷

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University of Würzburg, Germany |

ESPOL, Ecuador |

VU Amsterdam. The Netherlands |

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Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, IL, USA

Argonne National Laboratory

University of Chicago

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA |

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Cardiff University, U.K |

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The University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA

Argonne National Laboratory

University of Chicago

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2023-08-23

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Communications of the ACM

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CiteScore: 14.3

Impact factor: 12.2

ISSN: 00010782, 15577317

DOI: 10.1145/3587249

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Dispelling the confusion around serverless computing by capturing its essential and conceptual characteristics.

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Kounev S. et al. Serverless Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not? // Communications of the ACM. 2023. Vol. 66. No. 9. pp. 80-92.

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Kounev S., Herbst N., Abad C. L., Iosup A., Foster I., SHENOY P., Rana O., Chien A. A. Serverless Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not? // Communications of the ACM. 2023. Vol. 66. No. 9. pp. 80-92.

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