Program

Preliminary Date: December 7 (Tuesday)

Time: 11am ET (8am PT, 5pm CET)

Workshop location: virtual (Zoom)

Workshop schedule
11:00am-11:05m	Welcome, organization schedule, breaks, how to ask questions etc.
11:05am-11:30am	Invited speaker: Keynote #1: How organizations are integrating serverless into their workflows and where improvements can be made - 20min + 5 min Q&A (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
11:30am-12pm	Papers session #1: 4 papers 5min each + 10min for questions (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
	- Is Function-as-a-Service a Good Fit for Latency-Critical Services?
	- BIAS Autoscaler: Leveraging Burstable Instances for Cost-Effective Autoscaling on Cloud Systems
	- Implications of Alternative Serverless Application Control Flow Methods
	- Beyond @CloudFunction: Powerful Code Annotations to Capture Serverless Runtime Patterns
12-12:30pm	Break: Video hangout in zoom, open mic
12:30pm-12:55pm	Invited speaker: Keynote #2: Serverless Platforms: Tradeoffs and Consequences - 20min + 5 min Q&A (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
12:55-1pm	5min Break
1pm-1:25pm	Papers session #2: 3 papers 5min each + 10min for questions (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
	- SFL: A Compiler for Generating Stateful AWS Lambda Serverless Applications
	- SLA for Sequential Serverless Chains: A Machine Learning Approach
	- Towards Demystifying Intra-Function Parallelism in Serverless Computing
1:30-2pm	Break: Video hangout in zoom, open mic
2-2:25pm	Invited speaker: Keynote #3: Productivity gains across each area of the application lifecycle with using serverless technologies - 20min + 5 min Q&A (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
2:25-2:30pm	5min Break
2:30pm-3:10pm	Demos: 6x5min + 10min buffer Q&A (Slack or Zoom submitted during talk)
	- Serverless Big Data Analytics with Lithops
	- Scaling up spatial metabolomics with serverless computing and Lithops
	- A serverless variant caller: using lithops to port genomics pipelines to the cloud
	- The Serverless Shell
	- Faabric: Shared Memory and Message Passing for Serverless
	- Forget the Cold Start! Experience the “Spawn” Start in Serverless Computing
3:10-3:15pm	5min Break
3:15pm-3:55pm	Panel
3:55pm-4pm	Final words: Future WoSC 8 plans