https://medium.com/@hellerstein/the-state-of-the-serverless-art-78a4f02951eb riselab Sign in riselab The State of the Serverless Art Joe Hellerstein Joe Hellerstein Follow Aug 13, 2020 * 14 min read A photo of the cloud from https://www.flickr.com/photos/kky/704056791 A photo of the cloud from https://www.flickr.com/photos/kky/704056791 Serverless computing is beginning to deliver on the vision of allowing developers to program the cloud. Over the past 2 years, the Hydro team I lead at Berkeley's RISELab has been running hard and fast in the area of serverless computing. We designed and built a stateful Functions-as-a-Service platform called Cloudburst. I like to say "Cloudburst puts the state into the state-of-the-art" in serverless computing. In addition to the software prototype, papers on Cloudburst and serverless computing have been... To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in. Read the rest of this story with a free account. You'll also discover more fresh thinking personalized to your interests and can follow your favorite authors, publications, and topics. Open in app Or, continue in mobile web Sign up with Google Sign up with Facebook Already have an account? Sign in Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you'll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore Share your thinking. If you have a story to tell, knowledge to share, or a perspective to offer -- welcome home. It's easy and free to post your thinking on any topic. Write on Medium About Help Legal Get the Medium app A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store