Serverless applications: Why, when, and how?
Simon Eismann, Joel Scheuner, Erwin van Eyk, Maximilian Schwinger, Johannes Grohmann, Nikolas Herbst, Cristina L Abad, Alexandru Iosup - IEEE Software 2020
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2020
How to use private repositories with Go modules
Since the release of 1.13, Go has native Go Modules support, with go mod. Similar to other tooling in the Go ecosystem, like go fmt for code formatting, it i...
Beyond Microbenchmarks: The SPEC-RG Vision for a Comprehensive Serverless Benchmark
Erwin van Eyk, Joel Scheuner, Simon Eismann, Cristina L. Abad, Alexandru Iosup - HotCloudPerf @ ICPE 2020
Converting Kubernetes unstructured to typed objects
To interact with the Kubernetes API using the client-go library there are two primary APIs: the typed kubernetes.Interface API and the unstructured dynami...
2019
The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for FaaS: From Microservices and Containers to Serverless Platforms
Erwin van Eyk, Johannes Grohmann, Simon Eismann, Andre Bauer, Laurens Versluis, Lucian Toader, Norbert Schmitt, Nikolas Herbst, Cristina L. Abad, Alexandru I...
Accessing the docker-for-mac network from a browser: the fast and dirty way
For a authentication-related prototype I needed to be able to access some services running in containers. Unfortunately Docker runs in a VM on MacOS, and the...
Fixing kubectl autocompletion for an alias in Zsh
With the upcoming switch in MacOS to use Zsh rather than Bash, I decided to Zsh a shot as well for my setup. The setup (Zsh + oh-my-zsh) has been great so fa...
The Design, Productization, and Evaluation of a Serverless Workflow-Management System
Abstract The need for accessible and cost-effective IT resources has led to the near-universal adoption of cloud computing. Within cloud computing, serverles...
Talk: Serverless Operations: From Dev to Production @ Kubecon EU 2019
Abstract FaaS functions on Kubernetes are increasingly popular. We often talk about the developer productivity advantages, such as the time to create a usefu...
Talk: Going FaaSter: Cost-Performance Optimizations of Serverless on Kubernetes @ JAX DevOps 2019
Abstract Serverless promises on-demand, optimal performance for a fixed cost. Yet, we see that the current serverless platforms do not always hold up this pr...
Everything you need to know about serverless: What does the future hold? Permalink
Recently, I was interviewed regarding my talk at JAX DevOps: Everything you need to know about serverless: What does the future hold?
Talk: Going FaaSter: Cost-Performance Optimizations of Serverless on Kubernetes @ Serverless Architecture Conference 2019
Abstract Serverless promises on-demand, optimal performance for a fixed cost. Yet, we see that the current serverless platforms do not always hold up this pr...
Four Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost Permalink
A blog post based the talk I gave at KubeCon China 2018 was published on InfoQ:
Serverless is More: From PaaS to Present Cloud Computing
Erwin van Eyk, Lucian Toader, Sacheendra Talluri, Laurens Versluis, Alexandru Uta, Alexandru Iosup - IEEE Internet Computing, Sep/Oct edition, 2018
2018
Talk: Serverless Performance on a Budget @ ESSCA 2018
After my KubeCon talk in China in November, I got invited to give the same presentation to an academic audience at the European Symposium on Serverless Comp...
Talk: Serverless Performance on a Budget @ KubeCon China 2018
Last November I gave my second KubeCon talk, this time at the inaugural KubeCon in China. My idea was to share the insights in the internals—especially those...
Talk: Function Composition in a Serverless World @ KubeCon Europe 2018
Together with Timirah, I gave my very first industry talk at KubeCon Europe 2018 in Copenhagen. The topic, approaches to serverless function composition, was...
Talk: Performance Challenges of FaaS Cloud Architectures @ ICPE 2018
As part of the serverless effort of the SPEC Cloud Research Group we have been working towards a benchmark of serverless frameworks. We published an initial...
Poster: Addressing Performance Challenges in Serverless Computing @ ICPE 2018
As part of the SPEC RG CLOUD, we were invited to present a poster on our serverless activity at ICPE 2018.
Talk: SPEC RG CLOUD Serverless Activity - A Brief Overview @ HotCloudPerf 2018
With HotCloudPerf 2018 workshop being organized by the SPEC RG CLOUD, it provided us with the opportunity to introduce the activities of the group to the au...
Talk: Optimizing Latency in Function-as-a-Service with Distributed Promises @ HotCloudPerf 2018
Soam Vasani (Platform9, USA) and Erwin van Eyk (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Towards a Serverless Benchmark
Excerpt reproduced with permission from SPEC RG Newsletter Issue 7
Getting Started: Composing Serverless Functions with Fission Workflows (Part 2) Permalink
Getting Started: Composing Serverless Functions with Fission Workflows (Part 2)
Getting Started: Composing Serverless Functions with Fission Workflows (Part 1) Permalink
Getting Started: Composing Serverless Functions with Fission Workflows (Part 1)
Poster: Addressing Performance Challenges in Serverless Computing @ ICTOPEN 2018
On a last-minute ditch I submitted a short abstract to the ICTOPEN 2018 event - an annual event organized by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Res...
2017
Talk: The SPEC Cloud Group’s Research Vision on FaaS and Serverless Architectures @ WoSC 2017-12
Last December I travelled to Las Vegas for the Workshop on Serverless Computing, which was held in conjunction with Middleware 2017 to present the initial v...
Serverless vs. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)
Whenever you read two articles on serverless computing, you will notice at least three different interpretations of the words ‘serverless’ or ‘FaaS’. In fact...
2016
From 0 to Docker with the PINE64
In early 2016, I stumbled across the PINE64 Kickstarter. The promised Single Board Computer (SBC) sounded too good to be true. A 64-bit A53 ARM processor, ...