Jolteon - Unleashing the Promise of Serverless for Serverless Workflows

Explore a groundbreaking conference talk on Jolteon, an innovative orchestrator designed to fulfill the promise of automatic resource provisioning for serverless workflows. Delve into the challenges faced by developers in manually configuring resources on current serverless platforms to meet application-level requirements. Discover how Jolteon addresses these issues through a stochastic performance model that combines whitebox and blackbox modeling approaches. Learn about the chance constrained optimization problem formulated to find optimal resource configurations within user-defined cost or latency bounds. Examine the implementation of Jolteon on AWS Lambda and its performance compared to existing solutions. Gain insights into the potential of Jolteon to revolutionize serverless computing by significantly improving cost efficiency and latency in serverless workflows.

NSDI '24 - Jolteon: Unleashing the Promise of Serverless for Serverless Workflows