SeBS 2.0: Keeping up with the Clouds

Three years ago, SeBS, the serverless benchmarking suite, was introduced to address the need for an automatic, representative, and easy-to-use benchmarking framework for FaaS applications. SeBS has been widely adopted in research projects and has evolved to incorporate new features addressing the changing landscape of FaaS platforms. As serverless workflows and services continue to grow in size and complexity, there is an ongoing need to support emerging application classes. In this paper, we outline both the progress made and the roadmap for supporting new workloads and frameworks, while identifying upcoming trends and paradigm shifts to provide researchers with reliable and reproducible benchmarks. The serverless community needs an open and portable benchmarking framework to drive future progress, and SeBS aims to fulfill this crucial role.