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Research

Peer-reviewed papers and technical reports.

Selected publications

  • Dec 2022

    Understanding and Exploring Serverless Cloud Computing

    Johann Schleier-Smith

    Technical Report (PhD dissertation)

  • May 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

  • Jan 2019

    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

  • Aug 2015

    An Architecture for Agile Machine Learning in Real-Time Applications

    Johann Schleier-Smith

    KDDSlides

Conference and journal publications

  • Jun 2021

    The RESTless Cloud

    Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith, Joseph E. Gonzalez

    HotOSVideo

  • May 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

  • Jul 2020

    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

  • Jan 2019

    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

  • May 2017

    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

  • Oct 2016

    ReStream: Accelerating Backtesting and Stream Replay with Serial-Equivalent Parallel Processing

    Johann Schleier-Smith, Joseph M. Hellerstein

    SoCCSlides

  • Aug 2015

    An Architecture for Agile Machine Learning in Real-Time Applications

    Johann Schleier-Smith

    KDDSlides

Preprints, technical reports, and workshop papers

  • Dec 2022

    Understanding and Exploring Serverless Cloud Computing

    Johann Schleier-Smith

    Technical Report (PhD dissertation)

  • Sep 2020

    A FaaS File System for Serverless Computing

    Johann Schleier-Smith, Leonhard Holz, Nathan Pemberton, Joseph M. Hellerstein

  • Jun 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

  • Apr 2019

    The Serverless Data Center: Hardware Disaggregation Meets Serverless Computing

    Nathan Pemberton, Johann Schleier-Smith

    The First Workshop on Resource Disaggregation

  • Feb 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

  • Jan 2019

    Serverless Foundations for Elastic Database Systems

    Johann Schleier-Smith

    CIDR Extended Abstract

Invited talks and presentations without an accompanying paper are on the Talks page.

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