Nightcore is a research function-as-a-service (FaaS) runtime with μs-scale latency and high throughput. Nightcore targets stateless microservices that requires low latency. The current prototype supports functions written in C/C++, Go, Node.js, and Python.
./build_deps.sh
make -j $(nproc)
Inside examples folder, we provide "Hello world" example functions implemented in all supported programming languages. These functions demonstrate the basic usage of Nightcore's API for internal function calls.
A separate repository ut-osa/nightcore-benchmarks includes scripts and detailed instructions on running microservice workloads presented in our ASPLOS paper.
Please cite our ASPLOS '21 paper if you use Nightcore in your project:
@inproceedings{jia2021nightcore,
author = {Jia, Zhipeng and Witchel, Emmett},
title = {Nightcore: Efficient and Scalable Serverless Computing for Latency-Sensitive, Interactive Microservices},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450383172},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3445814.3446701},
doi = {10.1145/3445814.3446701},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
pages = {152–166},
numpages = {15},
keywords = {function-as-a-service, Cloud computing, serverless computing, microservices},
location = {Virtual, USA},
series = {ASPLOS 2021}
}