US 2021/0263779 A1 · FUNCTION AS A SERVICE (FAAS) SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS

Function as a service (faas) system enhancements

AssigneeIntel Corporation

InventorsMohammad R. Haghighat, Kshitij Doshi, Andrew J. Herdrich, Anup Mohan, Ravishankar R. Iyer, Mingqiu Sun, Krishna Bhuyan, Teck Joo Goh, Mohan J. Kumar, Michael Prinke, Michael Lemay, Leeor Peled, Jr-Shian Tsai, David M. Durham, Jeffrey D. Chamberlain, Vadim A. Sukhomlinov, Eric J. Dahlen, Sara Baghsorkhi, Harshad Sane, Areg Melik-Adamyan, Ravi Sahita, Dmitry Yurievich Babokin, Ian M. Steiner, Alexander Bachmutsky, Anil Rao, Mingwei Zhang, Nilesh K. Jain, Amin Firoozshahian, Baiju V. Patel, Wenyong Huang, Yeluri Raghuram

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Abstract

Embodiments of systems, apparatuses and methods provide enhanced function as a service (FaaS) to users, e.g., computer developers and cloud service providers (CSPs). A computing system configured to provide such enhanced FaaS service include one or more controls architectural subsystems, software and orchestration subsystems, network and storage subsystems, and security subsystems. The computing system executes functions in response to events triggered by the users in an execution environment provided by the architectural subsystems, which represent an abstraction of execution management and shield the users from the burden of managing the execution. The software and orchestration subsystems allocate computing resources for the function execution by intelligently spinning up and down containers for function code with decreased instantiation latency and increased execution scalability while maintaining secured execution. Furthermore, the computing system enables customers to pay only when their code gets executed with a granular billing down to millisecond increments.

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Dependent claims

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At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of executable computer programming instructions for providing enhanced function as a service (FaaS) to a plurality of users, which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

execute a plurality of functions on one or more architectural subsystems in the computing system in response to one or more events received from the plurality of users, the one or more architectural subsystems representing an abstraction of execution environment for the plurality of functions and a plurality of containers associated with the plurality of functions;
allocate a plurality of computing resources of the computing system to facilitate the execution of the plurality of functions by one or more software and orchestration subsystems in the computing system;
analyze a plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of functions and a plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of computing resources;
store the plurality of functions and analysis of the plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of functions and the plurality of computing resources in one or more networking and storage subsystems in the computing system, locations for storing of the plurality of functions and the analysis of the plurality of parameters being selected for enhancing locality between the plurality of functions and the corresponding plurality of computing resources and reducing function execution latency;
and
secure the execution of the plurality of function by one or more security subsystems in the computing system.

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A semiconductor apparatus comprising:

one or more substrates;
and
logic coupled to the one or more substrates, wherein the logic is implemented at least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality hardware logic, the logic coupled to the one or more substrates to:
execute a plurality of functions on one or more architectural subsystems in a computing system in response to one or more events received from the plurality of users, the one or more architectural subsystems representing an abstraction of execution environment for the plurality of functions and a plurality of containers associated with the plurality of functions;
allocate a plurality of computing resources of the computing system to facilitate the execution of the plurality of functions by one or more software and orchestration subsystems in the computing system;
analyze a plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of functions and a plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of computing resources;
store the plurality of functions and analysis of the plurality of parameters associated with the plurality of functions and computing resources in one or more networking and storage subsystems in the computing system, locations for storing of the plurality of functions and the analysis of the plurality of parameters being selected for enhancing locality between the plurality of functions and the corresponding plurality of computing resources and reducing function execution latency;
and
secure the execution of the plurality of function by one or more security subsystems in the computing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.