Publications and Presentations

Conference and Journal Publications

The RESTless Cloud | Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith, Joseph E. Gonzalez. HotOS. [video]
June 1, 2021
What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing | Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao Carreira, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, David A. Patterson. Communications of the ACM.
May 1, 2021
Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service. | V. Sreekanti, C. Wu, X. C. Lin, Johann Schleier-Smith, J. M. Faleiro, J. E. Gonzalez, J. M. Hellerstein, A. Tumanov. VLDB 2020.
July 24, 2020
Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jose Faleiro, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Alexey Tumanov and Chenggang Wu. CIDR.
January 14, 2019
Real-Time Machine Learning: The Missing Pieces | Robert Nishihara, Philipp Moritz, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, William Paul, Johann Schleier-Smith, Richard Liaw, Mehrdad Niknami, Michael I. Jordan, Ion Stoica. HotOS.
May 7, 2017
ReStream: Accelerating Backtesting and Stream Replay with Serial-Equivalent Parallel Processing | Johann Schleier-Smith, Joseph M. Hellerstein. SoCC. [slides]
October 6, 2016
An Architecture for Agile Machine Learning in Real-Time Applications | Johann Schleier-Smith. KDD. [slides]
August 10, 2015

Preprints, Technical Reports and Workshop Papers

Understanding and Exploring Serverless Cloud Computing | Johann Schleier-Smith. Technical Report.
December 30, 2022
A FaaS File System for Serverless Computing | Johann Schleier-Smith, Leonhard Holz, Nathan Pemberton, Joseph M. Hellerstein.
September 16, 2020
CoVista: A Unified View on Privacy Sensitive Mobile Contact Tracing | David Culler, Prabal Dutta, Gabe Fierro, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith, K. Shankari, Alvin Wan, Thomas Zachariah. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering.
June 1, 2020
The Serverless Data Center: Hardware Disaggregation Meets Serverless Computing | Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith. The First Workshop on Resource Disaggregation.
April 13, 2019
Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing | Eric Jonas, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Chia-Che Tsai, Anural Khandelwal, Qifan Pu, Vaishaal Shankar, Joao Menezes Carreira, Karl Krauth, Neeraja Yadwadkar, Joseph Gonzalez, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica, David A. Patterson. Technical Report.
February 10, 2019
Serverless Foundations for Elastic Database Systems | Johann Schleier-Smith. CIDR Extended Abstract.
January 15, 2019

Talks and Invited Articles

Self-Managing Databases—If Not Now Then When? | Johann Schleier-Smith. Postgres Conference. [slides]
April 19, 2024
A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing | Johann Schleier-Smith. Serverlessconf NYC.
November 7, 2019
A File System for Serverless Computing | Johann Schleier-Smith. HPTS.
November 5, 2019
Architecting for Data Science | Johann Schleier-Smith. O'Reilly Software Architecture. [slides]
March 19, 2015
Agile Machine Learning for Real-time Recommender Systems | Johann Schleier-Smith. MLConf. [video]
November 14, 2014
Using Big Data To Solve Social Discovery's Relevance Problem | Johann Schleier-Smith.
January 9, 2013
Social Media Analytics Using Greenplum's Data Computing Appliance | Johann Schleier-Smith. O'Reilly Strata.
February 2, 2011