HAPIC: Hybrid Adaptive Pre-Initialization Caching for Serverless Cold-Start Reduction
Overview HAPIC is a peer-reviewed research paper that presents a hybrid caching strategy to significantly reduce cold-start latency in AWS Lambda environments. This work was accepted to IEEE SmartCloud 2026 as first author, with an extended version under review for IEEE IC2E 2026. Problem Statement AWS Lambda cold-starts cause significant latency spikes (200-500ms) when functions haven’t been invoked recently. This severely impacts user experience in production systems and makes serverless less viable for latency-sensitive applications....