CF Serverless: CloudFoundry as a Platform for Serverless Computing

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Built a CF application that launches and kills function apps on demand and a benchmark suite that runs echo, 300x300 matrix multiplication, primes under 1000 and a coroutine checker across OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda, Azure, Iron.io and CF itself. Experiments (fall 2016) use 512 MB, 100 warmup + 100 measured requests repeated 3 times. CF cold start costs about first request ~7s due to buildpack/droplet work while Lambda sometimes hits ~80 ms; container lifecycle and scaling behavior—not price—drive performance and failure modes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 5:42What is serverless computing
3. 11:42CF Serverless experiment setup
4. 16:14Performance metrics and results
5. 20:52Key lessons and future work
6. 22:18Q&A on Cloud Foundry tasks

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