COCOA: Cold Start Aware Capacity Planning for Function-as-a-Service Platforms

Gias, A.U. and Casale, G. 2020. COCOA: Cold Start Aware Capacity Planning for Function-as-a-Service Platforms. 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. Nice, France 17 - 18 Nov 2020 IEEE . https://doi.org/10.1109/mascots50786.2020.9285966

TitleCOCOA: Cold Start Aware Capacity Planning for Function-as-a-Service Platforms
AuthorsGias, A.U. and Casale, G.
TypeConference paper
Abstract

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become increasingly popular in the software industry due to the implied cost-savings in event-driven workloads and its synergy with DevOps. To size an on-premise FaaS platform, it is important to estimate the required CPU and memory capacity to serve the expected loads. Given the service-level agreements, it is however challenging to take the cold start issue into account during the sizing process. We have investigated the similarity of this problem with the hit rate improvement problem in Time to Live (TTL) caches and concluded that solutions for TTL cache, although potentially applicable, lead to over-provisioning in FaaS. Thus, we propose a novel approach, COCOA, to solve this issue. COCOA uses a queueing-based approach to assess the effect of cold starts on FaaS response times. It also considers different memory consumption values depending on whether the function is idle or in execution. Using an event-driven FaaS simulator, FaasSim, that we have developed, we show that COCOA can reduce overprovisioning by over 70% under some of the workloads we have considered, while satisfying the service-level agreements.

Year2020
Conference28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
PublisherIEEE
Publication dates
Published21 Dec 2020
JournalProceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS
ISSN1526-7539
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1109/mascots50786.2020.9285966
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