Unifying serverless and microservice workloads with SigmaOS

Many cloud applications use both serverless functions, for bursts of stateless parallel computation, and container orchestration, for long-running microservices and tasks that need to interact. Ideally a single platform would offer the union of these systems' capabilities, but neither is sufficient to act as that single platform: serverless functions are lightweight but cannot act as servers with long-term state, while container orchestration offers general-purpose computation but instance start-up takes too long to support burst parallelism.