Biography
I am a researcher and an engineer with a PhD from the Systems Group of ETH Zurich. My work has focused on computer systems, distributed systems, big cloud cluster orchestration, and resource management. I was advised by Prof. Dr. Ana Klimovic. My secondary advisor was Prof. Dr. Timothy Roscoe. I received my MSc and BSc degrees from the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering in Serbia.
News
- June 2026: I have successfully defended my doctoral thesis at ETH Zurich.
- November 16, 2025: I will present our latest research vision on service meshes at SoCC'25 on November 19th
- October 13, 2025: I will attend SOSP'25 in Seoul and will present a poster on October 14th
- March 31, 2025: I will be giving an overview of our Dirigent SOSP'24 paper with a live demo at the SESAME'25 workshop at ASPLOS/EuroSys in Rotterdam
- November 5, 2024: I will be presenting Dirigent: Lightweight Serverless Orchestration at SOSP'24 in Austin, TX
Publications
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Cluster-Level Infrastructure for More Efficient Serverless Computing
Lazar Cvetković
ETH Zurich Library Research Collection, 2026
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Towards a Lightweight Sidecar-based Service Mesh for Serverless
Lazar Cvetković, Ana Klimovic
Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2025
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Unlocking True Elasticity for the Cloud-Native Era with Dandelion
Tom Kuchler, Pinghe Li, Yazhuo Zhang, Lazar Cvetković, Boris Goranov, Tobias Stocker, Leon Thomm, Simone Kalbermatter, Tim Notter, Andrea Lattuada, Ana Klimovic
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2025
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Dirigent: Lightweight Serverless Orchestration
Lazar Cvetković, François Costa, Mihajlo Djokic, Michal Friedman, Ana Klimovic
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2024
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Understanding the Neglected Cost of Serverless Cluster Management
Lazar Cvetković, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ana Klimovic
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORDS), ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2023
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Enabling In-Vitro Serverless Systems Research
Dmitrii Ustiugov, Dohyun Park, Lazar Cvetković, Mihajlo Djokic, Hongyun Hè, Boris Grot, Ana Klimovic
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORDS), ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2023
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PaSh: light-touch data-parallel shell processing - best paper award
Nikos Vasilakis, Konstantinos Kallas, Konstantinos Mamouras, Achilles Benetopoulos, Lazar Cvetković
Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2021
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