Nightcore

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.

Building Nightcore

./build_deps.sh
make -j $(nproc)

Running "Hello world" examples

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.

Running microservice workloads

A separate repository ut-osa/nightcore-benchmarks includes scripts and detailed instructions on running microservice workloads presented in our ASPLOS paper.

Publication

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}
}