Provisioning using pre-fetched data in serverless computing environments

A computer-readable device having stored therein instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a serverless computing cluster, a plurality of user defined functions (UDFs) for execution on one or more worker nodes of the serverless computing cluster;
• determining one or more data locations of a first UDF data needed for the future execution of a first UDF of the plurality of UDFs;
• receiving, at a master node of the serverless computing cluster, a plurality of worker node tickets, each worker node ticket indicating a resource availability of a corresponding worker node;
• analyzing, via the master node, the one or more data locations and the plurality of worker node tickets to determine eligible worker nodes capable of executing the first UDF;
• transmitting, via the master node, a pre-fetch command to one or more of the eligible worker nodes, the pre-fetch command generated from the determined one or more data locations such that the one or more of the eligible worker nodes become provisioned worker nodes, wherein each provisioned worker node stores a pre-fetched UDF data before the first UDF has been assigned for execution;
• and
• performing UDF allocation across the provisioned worker nodes.