Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]

Another proposal from Apache Flink as another application of stateful distributed stream processing:

https://statefun.io/

Functions are deserialized along with their state when woken up by an input.

TLDR here: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/29/narrowing-the-gap/

Somewhat related: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...