Distributed SQL Summit 2020 | The Art of the State: Serverless Computing and Distributed Data

Serverless computing is a first step to opening up the cloud as a programmable platform for developers. As always, the hardest and most interesting part is the data, a topic that is poorly served by first-generation serverless platforms. In this talk I’ll go over the challenges of data management in serverless computing, and promising new results from the Anna KVS and Cloudburst “stateful” serverless computing efforts in Berkeley’s RISELab.

Presenter: Joe Hellerstein - Chief Strategy Officer and Professor at UC Berkeley, Trifacta

Sept 17, 2020 at the Distributed SQL Summit

[martinvannijnatten]

Hi Joe - impressive work on Anna. After reading the papers, I keep thinking that the message passing architecture lends itself so well to a rewrite in Erlang. This might, for example, remove the need to use something like ZeroMQ as most of it is built into the language/runtime. And whilst the existing C++ code base is already impressively small, an Erlang (or Elixir) rewrite would reduce complexity.