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The serverless shell

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Serverless computing is a recent paradigm to program the cloud. It allows to execute user-defined functions at scale, on demand, and in a pay-per-use manner. This paper reports on adapting the Unix shell for serverless. Our software, called the serverless shell (sshell), runs shell scripts on a serverless platform much like with a regular computer. It permits to reuse an existing code base while benefiting from the massive power of serverless and paying only for the resources used. sshell is built around a small set of components that includes a new inter-process communication layer for serverless. We evaluate it in AWS Lambda using several microbenchmarks and a large-scale application. Our results show that sshell achieves comparable or better performance than a high-end server. Moreover, it can be faster and more cost-efficient than a cluster-based solution to mine large datasets.
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hal-04251883 , version 1 (20-10-2023)

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Aurèle Mahéo, Pierre Sutra, Tristan Tarrant. The serverless shell. 22nd International Middleware Conference (Middleware '21), Dec 2021, Québec city Canada, France. pp.9-15, ⟨10.1145/3491084.3491426⟩. ⟨hal-04251883⟩
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