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)
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Authors
- 1. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Jose Faleiro (University of California Berkeley)
- 3. Joseph E. Gonzalez (University of California Berkeley)
- 4. Johann Schleier-Smith (University of California Berkeley)
- 5. Vikram Sreekanti (University of California Berkeley)
- 6. Alexey Tumanov (University of California Berkeley)
- 7. Chenggang Wu (University of California Berkeley)
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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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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