Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service   Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and "serverless" cloud computing are
becoming increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless
functions that do minimal I/O and communication. We argue that the benefits of
serverless computing can be extended to a broader range of applications and
algorithms. We present the design and implementation of Cloudburst, a stateful
FaaS platform that provides familiar Python programming with low-latency
mutable state and communication, while maintaining the autoscaling benefits of
serverless computing. Cloudburst accomplishes this by leveraging Anna, an
autoscaling key-value store, for state sharing and overlay routing combined
with mutable caches co-located with function executors for data locality.
Performant cache consistency emerges as a key challenge in this architecture.
To this end, Cloudburst provides a combination of lattice-encapsulated state
and new definitions and protocols for distributed session consistency.
Empirical results on benchmarks and diverse applications show that Cloudburst
makes stateful functions practical, reducing the state-management overheads of
current FaaS platforms by orders of magnitude while also improving the state of
the art in serverless consistency.

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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: physics