ICSA 2025
Mon 31 March - Fri 4 April 2025 Odense, Denmark

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Serverless Cloud paradigm where a platform manages the scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, run- time environments) of stateless functions. Recent work proposed using domain-specific languages to express per-function policies, e.g., policies that enforce the allocation on nodes that enjoy lower latencies to databases and services used by the function. Here, we focus on affinity-aware scenarios, i.e., where, for performance and functional requirements, the allocation of a function depends on the presence/absence of other functions on nodes. We present aAPP, an extension of a declarative, platform-agnostic language that captures affinity-aware scheduling at the FaaS level. We implement an aAPP-based prototype on Apache OpenWhisk. Besides proving that a FaaS platform can capture affinity awareness using aAPP and improve performance in affinity-aware scenarios, we use our prototype to show that aAPP imposes no noticeable overhead in scenarios without affinity constraints.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 2 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change

12:30 - 13:30
Microservices and Cloud-Native Architectures IResearch Papers at Hall 2 (U82)
Chair(s): Davide Taibi University of Oulu
12:30
15m
Research paper
Architecture and Performance Antipatterns Correlation in Microservice Architectures
Research Papers
Alberto Avritzer eSulabSolutions, Andrea Janes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute, Helena Rodrigues Universidade do Minho, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Álvaro José Abreu de Oliveira
12:45
15m
Research paper
Network Centrality as a New Perspective on Microservice Architecture
Research Papers
Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Matteo Esposito University of Oulu, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, Davide Taibi University of Oulu
Pre-print
13:00
15m
Research paper
How Does Microservice Granularity Impact Energy Consumption and Performance? A Controlled Experiment
Research Papers
Yiming Zhao Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tiziano De Matteis University of Pisa, Italy, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print
13:15
15m
Research paper
Affinity-aware Serverless Function Scheduling
Research Papers
Giuseppe De Palma Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Università di Bologna, Saverio Giallorenzo Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna / INRIA, Jacopo Mauro University of Southern Denmark, Matteo Trentin Università di Bologna, Gianluigi Zavattaro Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Università di Bologna
Pre-print
:
:
:
: