SERVERLESS COMPUTING Serverless computing, also known as the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model, has dramatically risen in popularity since the introduction of the Lambda platform by AWS in 2014. Although not the first cloud services provider to offer such a platform, the scale and scope of the AWS offering meant that, for many, this was when the serverless paradigm hit the big-time. The “serverless” name clearly does not suggest that no compute resources underpin the services, but instead that, to the consumer of the service, there are no virtual machines exposed. This means: no provisioning of infrastructure and no ongoing management of compute resources. The execution of users’ functions is abstracted away from the machines on which it takes place, and as such it can be seen to...