What is the Future of Serverless Computing?

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Claims that serverless (with Knative on Kubernetes) cuts cost and energy use are backed by specifics: cloud grows ~15% and already consumes ~1–1.5% of global energy, so overcommit/defragmentation can save providers and users money. Concrete hurdles: cold start latency is tens of milliseconds today but targets are <10 ms; solutions include freezing containers, faster probing, and runtime projects like Security Guard plus OpenCost and Kubernetes sustainability efforts. Emerging use cases include data/AI (KFServing/KF) and quantum serverless workflows.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:01motivation
3. 7:02historical context
4. 8:56managing costs
5. 14:14quantum serverless
6. 15:38design
7. 16:38solution (specifics)
8. 17:30threats to validity
9. 18:50summary

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