Research Challenges for a Future Serverless Cloud
Abstract:
All else being equal, it is a rational choice for an increasing number of cloud applications to be serverless: there is no need to think about allocating, configuring, scaling, and maintaining infrastructure, and you only pay for what you use. We envision a future in which only niche applications will need to worry about the abstraction of a server. However, there are many challenges to be solved, both for developers and for providers, to realize this vision. In this talk, I will discuss some of these challenges, work that we have been doing to address them at Azure Systems Research, and future directions.
Shortbio:
Rodrigo Fonseca is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft and leads the Azure Systems Research (AzSR) group. The group is focused on innovative systems research, broadly construed, to improve the efficiency and utility of the Azure cloud, while maintaining the security and reliability expected from a public cloud offering. He is broadly interested in cloud computing, operating systems, distributed systems, and networking. He obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley, and prior to Microsoft was an Associate Professor at Brown University.