Talks & Papers

Thank you for your interest in our work. Here you can find a collection of our talks and papers.

Publications

  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Failure-Transparent Actors.” In Concurrent Programming, Open Systems and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Gul Agha to Celebrate His Scientific Career. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16120, 81–113. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05291-9_4; SharedIt
  • Jonas Spenger, Kolya Krafeld, Ruben van Gemeren, Philipp Haller, and Paris Carbone. “Holon Streaming: Global Aggregations with Windowed CRDTs.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25757 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25757; PDF
  • Aleksey Veresov, Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Failure Transparency in Stateful Dataflow Systems.” In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 42:1-42:31, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024). https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.42; PDF
  • Aleksey Veresov, Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Failure Transparency in Stateful Dataflow Systems (Technical Report).” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06738 (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06738; PDF
  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “A Survey of Actor-Like Programming Models for Serverless Computing.” In Active Object Languages: Current Research Trends, pp. 123-146. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14360. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51060-1_5; SharedIt
  • Jonas Spenger, Chengyang Huang, Philipp Haller, and Paris Carbone. “Portals: A Showcase of Multi-Dataflow Stateful Serverless.” PVLDB, 16(12): 4054 - 4057, 2023. https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611619; PDF
  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Portals: An Extension of Dataflow Streaming for Stateful Serverless.” In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! ’22), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3567664; PDF
  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Wip: Pods: Privacy compliant scalable decentralized data services.” In Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare, pp. 70-82. Springer, Cham, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93663-1_7; SharedIt

PhD Theses

MSc Theses

Talks

  • Philipp Haller. “Failure Transparency for Stream Processing and Actors.” 2025. Slides
  • Jonas Spenger and Philipp Haller. “Simple and Safe Pickling of Closures in Scala 3.” Scala Days 2025, 2025. Slides; Video
  • Philipp Haller (Keynote). “How to Make Distributed Programming Safer using Types.” 34th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory (NWPT 2023), 2023. Slides
  • Philipp Haller. “Portals: Teleporting Smart Edge Services to a Serverless Future.” Digitalize in Stockholm 2023, 2023. Slides
  • Jonas Spenger. “Crossing the Boundaries of Stateful Streaming and Actors Using Serverless Portals.” Scala Days - Madrid 2023, 2023. Slides; Video
  • Jonas Spenger. “Portals: An Extension of Dataflow Streaming for Stateful Serverless.” Splash ‘22: Onward! ’22, 2022. Video
  • Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Resilient Decentralised Computing: Enabling Trust and Simplicity in Smart Edge Services.” Digitalize in Stockholm 2022, 2022. Video
  • Philipp Haller. “Extending Dataflow Streaming for Stateful Serverless.” CASTOR Software Days, 2022. Slides; Video

Posters

  • Jonas Spenger, Chengyang Huang, Philipp Haller, and Paris Carbone. “Portals: A Showcase of Multi-Dataflow Stateful Serverless.” RISE Computer Science & AI open house, 2023.
  • Jonas Spenger, Aleksey Veresov, Maximilian Kurzawski, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “The Portals Framework: Enabling Flexible Stateful Serverless Applications.” CASTOR Software Days, 2023.
  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Portals: Stateful Serverless Dataflow Streaming.” CASTOR Software Days, 2022.
  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. “Privacy-Preserving Computing.” RISE Computer Science & AI open house, 2022.

Cite Our Work

If you want to cite our work, please consider citing the following publication:

  • Jonas Spenger, Paris Carbone, and Philipp Haller. 2022. Portals: An Extension of Dataflow Streaming for Stateful Serverless. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! ’22), December 8-10, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3567664
@inproceedings{SpengerCH22,
  author = {Jonas Spenger and Paris Carbone and Philipp Haller},
  title = {Portals: An Extension of Dataflow Streaming for Stateful Serverless},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 {ACM} {SIGPLAN} International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Onward! 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, December 8-10, 2022},
  editor = {Christophe Scholliers and Jeremy Singer},
  pages = {153--171},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3567664},
  doi = {10.1145/3563835.3567664},
  isbn = {9781450399098},
  location = {Auckland, New Zealand},
  series = {Onward! 2022},
}