todo.md

Faasten

Frontend

• add user-facing API for interactions with Faasten file system
• dynamic function registration API
  • functions can be registered dynamically, instead of from a YAML configuration file
  • automate function packaging, i.e., converting the source into Faasten function image
• self-hosting
  • store function images as blobs in Faasten file system
  • makes function gates link image blobs

Core

• low-level system calls
  • opaque handles (branch opaque-handles sketched something)
  • system calls
• generic gates
  • allow access to external data sinks/sources
• garbage collection
  • implementation
  • measuring garbage collection performance overhead
  • ...
• distributed scheduler
• distributed storage
• VM caching
  • If the scheduler is unaware of labels, then for a worker thread what to do with a cached tainted VM.

Faasten application

• grader
• photo management
• Deathstar