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Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other: If serverless platforms could wrap functions in database transactions, they would be a good fit for database-backed applications.

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Qian Li and

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Queue, Volume 22, Issue 3

Pages 79 - 91

https://doi.org/10.1145/3674952

Published: 05 July 2024 Publication History

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Database-backed applications are an exciting new frontier for serverless computation. By tightly integrating application execution and data management, a transactional serverless platform enables many new features not possible in either existing serverless platforms or server-based deployments.

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Queue Volume 22, Issue 3

Serverless

May/June 2024

70 pages

ISSN:1542-7730

EISSN:1542-7749

DOI:10.1145/3676308

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