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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Summary: Shows first‑gen serverless mismatches data‑centric, distributed and custom‑hardware workloads—limited state, I/O, network, extensibility. Argues these gaps stifle data‑systems innovation and lists challenges to make serverless a scalable, extensible exascale platform. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
319
Venue
CIDR
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00012691341
Overall Rank
1,007 | 93.10%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hellerstein_cidr19,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '19},
        title = {{Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Faleiro, Jose and Gonzalez, Joseph E. and Schleier-Smith, Johann and Sreekanti, Vikram and Tumanov, Alexey and Wu, Chenggang},
        year = {2019}
}

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939 Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013083524
1,482 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010642079
1,784 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 9.7726335e-05
3,169 Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training 2021 SIGMOD 7.6715222e-05
3,549 DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System 2022 VLDB 7.3212765e-05
4,103 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8993506e-05
4,311 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.7676144e-05
4,333 Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms 2021 CIDR 6.7558205e-05
4,908 Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 6.4488784e-05
4,974 Stateful Functions as a Service in Action 2019 VLDB 6.4178811e-05
5,265 New Directions in Cloud Programming 2021 CIDR 6.2941668e-05
6,684 CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment 2020 CIDR 5.8036476e-05
6,813 Netherite: Efficient Execution of Serverless Workflows 2022 VLDB 5.7657129e-05
6,939 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 5.7338637e-05
7,114 Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving 2022 SIGMOD 5.6982359e-05
8,375 Serverless State Management Systems 2024 CIDR 5.4391978e-05
8,674 Boosting Efficiency of External Pipelines by Blurring Application Boundaries 2022 CIDR 5.3869233e-05
9,664 Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange 2022 SIGMOD 5.240674e-05
10,121 End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure 2026 CIDR 5.093636e-05
10,689 CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,112 Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless 2024 CIDR 5.093636e-05
11,335 CausalMesh: A Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,760 Le Taureau : Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape & A Look Forward 2020 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,767 Serverless Query Processing on a Budget 2020 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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972 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012874501
1,240 Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach 2011 CIDR 0.00011536847
1,457 Building on Quicksand 2009 CIDR 0.00010726983
1,623 Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking 2011 PODS 0.0001020106
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