About me
Links: Google Scholar. TU Berlin.
Publications
2025
Trever Schirmer, Valentin Carl, Nils Höller, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach Minos: Exploiting Cloud Performance Variation with Function-as-a-Service Instance Selection arXiv:2505.12928 [cs.DC] 2025 Bib. PDF.
Valentin Carl, Trever Schirmer, Niklas Kowallik, Joshua Adamek, Tobias Pfandzelter, Sergio Lucia, David Bermbach Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing arXiv:2505.21199 [cs.DC] 2025 Bib. PDF.
Minghe Wang, Alexandra Kapp, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach Exploring Influence Factors on LLM Suitability for No-Code Development of End User IoT Applications arXiv:2505.04710 [cs.DC] 2025 Bib. PDF.
Tobias Pfandzelter, Nikita Bauer, Alexander Leis, Corentin Perdrizet, Felix Trautwein, Trever Schirmer, Osama Abboud, David Bermbach Trabant: A Serverless Architecture for Multi-Tenant Orbital Edge Computing arXiv:2504.08337 [cs.DC] 2025 Bib. PDF.
Minghe Wang, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach LLM4FaaS: No-Code Application Development using LLMs and FaaS arXiv:2502.14450 [cs.SE] 2025 Bib. PDF.
2024
Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Fusionize++: Improving Serverless Application Performance Using Dynamic Task Inlining and Infrastructure Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2024.3451108. Bib. PDF.
Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. ElastiBench: Scalable Continuous Benchmarking on Cloud FaaS Platforms. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2024. Bib. PDF.
Valentin Carl, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. GeoFF: Federated Serverless Workflows with Data Pre-Fetching. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2024. Bib. PDF.
Mohammadreza Malekabbasi, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. GeoFaaS: An Edge-to-Cloud FaaS Platform. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2024. Bib. PDF.
Minghe Wang, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. ShutPub: Publisher-side Filtering for Content-based Pub/Sub on Edge. In: 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2024) 2024 Bib. PDF. (🏆 Best Paper Award)
2023
Martin Grambow, Tim Dockenfuß, Trever Schirmer, Nils Japke and David Bermbach. Efficiently Detecting Performance Changes in FaaS Application Releases. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, WoSC ’23, New York, NY, USA, December 2023. ACM. Bib. PDF.
Trever Schirmer, Valentin Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter, and David Bermbach. ProFaaStinate: Delaying Serverless Function Calls to Optimize Platform Performance. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, WoSC ’23, New York, NY, USA, December 2023. ACM. Bib. PDF. Slides. Presentation
Trever Schirmer, Nils Japke, Sofia Greten, Tobias Pfandzelter, and David Bermbach. The Night Shift: Understanding performance variability of cloud serverless platforms. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Serverless Systems, Applications and Methodologies, SESAME ’23, New York, NY, USA, May 2023. ACM. Bib. PDF.
Tobias Pfandzelter, Nils Japke, Trever Schirmer, Jonathan Hasenburg, and David Bermbach. Managing Data Replication and Distribution in the Fog with FReD. In Wiley - Software: Practice and Experience 2023. Bib. PDF.
Minghe Wang, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, and David Bermbach. Lotus: Serverless in-transit data processing for edge-based pub/sub. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, EdgeSys ’23, New York, NY, USA, May 2023. ACM. Bib. PDF.
2022
Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Fusionize: Improving Serverless Application Performance through Feedback-Driven Function Fusion. In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2022. Bib. PDF.
Sebastian Werner, Trever Schirmer. Hardless: A Generalized Serverless Compute Architecture for Hardware Processing Accelerators. In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2022. Bib. PDF.
Tobias Pfandzelter, Sören Henning, Trever Schirmer, Wilhelm Hasselbring, David Bermbach. Streaming vs. Functions: A Cost Perspective on Cloud Event Processing. In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE 2022. Bib. PDF.
Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. Towards Distributed Coordination for Fog Platforms. In: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, Posters (CCGrid 2022). IEEE 2022. Bib. PDF.
Miscellaneous
06/2024 - ElastiBench: Scalable Continuous Benchmarking on Cloud FaaS Platforms Third International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WoSCx3) Presentation
03/2024 - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Software Campus Grant Recipient