FCloudless: A Performance-Aware Collaborative Mechanism for JointCloud Serverless

As a new stage in the development of the cloud computing paradigm, serverless computing has the high-level abstraction characteristic of shielding underlying details. This makes it extremely challenging for users to choose a suitable serverless platform. To address this, targeting the jointcloud computing scenario of heterogeneous serverless platforms across multiple clouds, this paper presents a jointcloud collaborative mechanism called FCloudless with cross-cloud detection of the full lifecycle performance of serverless platforms. Based on the benchmark metrics set that probe performance critical stages of the full lifecycle, this paper proposes a performance optimization algorithm based on detected performance data that takes into account all key stages that affect the performance during the lifecycle of a function and predicts the overall performance by combining the scores of local stages and dynamic weights. We evaluate FCloudless on AWS, AliYun, and Azure. The experimental results show that FCloudless can detect the underlying performance of serverless platforms hidden in the black box and its optimization algorithm can select the optimal scheduling strategy for various applications in a jointcloud environment. FCloudless reduces the runtime by 23.3% and 24.7% for cold and warm invocations respectively under cost constraints.