European Symposium on Serverless Computing and Applications – ESSCA 2018 – Symposium Proceedings Editor: Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Foreword Table of contents This proceedings volume contains the works presented Session 1: Regular and short papers in the scientific track at ESSCA 2018. While being 2–8 Andreas Christoforou, Andreas S. Andreou: a dedicated event to mix academic, industry, educa- An effective resource management approach in tional and community views, ESSCA 2018 was collo- a FaaS environment cated with the IEEE/ACM UCC and BDCAT 2018 conferences and ran subsequent to the 4th Workshop 9–17 Serhii Dorodko, Josef Spillner: Selective Java on Serverless Computing (WoSC4), thus bringing large code transformation into AWS Lambda func- parts of the research community around FaaS and tions serverless systems together. 18–24 Yessica Bogado-Sarubbi, Walter Benitez- A total of seven submissions were received in the Davalos, Josef Spillner, Fabio Lopez-Pires: To- scientific track, of which five were selected to pass the wards sustainable ecosystems for cloud func- quality gate on the condition of achieving an average tions score of at least +0.5. Each paper had received at least 25–29 Daniel Barcelona Pons, Álvaro Ruiz Ollobar- four reviews to ensure the diversity and representative- ren, David Arroyo Pinto, Pedro Garcı́a López: ness of feedback and advice to the authors. Studying the feasibility of serverless actors 30–35 Mohammed Al-Ameen, Josef Spillner: Sys- Scientific Track programme commit- tematic and open exploration of FaaS and tee Serverless Computing research • Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy Session 2: Talk and tutorial abstracts • Martin Garriga, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 36 Diego Martı́n: Building a serverless applica- tion using FaaS workflows • Tyler Harter, University of Wisconsin, USA 37 Erez Freiberger: Monitoring/debugging AWS • Višnja Križanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Uni- Lambda applications versity of Osijek, Croatia 38 Erwin van Eyk: Going FaaSter: Cost- • Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland performance optimizations of serverless on Ku- • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and bernetes Technology, Poland 39 Maciej Pawlik: Performance considerations on • Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia execution of large scale workflow applications on cloud functions • Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France 40 Yu-An Chen: Feedback-based resource alloca- • Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, tion for Serverless Computing Italy 41 Massimo Villari: Osmotic Computing • Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sci- ences, Switzerland (chair) 42 Oleksii Serhiienko: Distributed Lambda func- tions to improve and extend the functionality • Dan Williams, IBM Research, USA of cloud management platforms