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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem?

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. But what is FaaS?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. It doesn't lessen the impact or importance of OpenConnect; but, it grew out of a very real impasse with a very large ISP. Get them while they're hot.

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . How do you make it scalable? . But how will you set up the communication?

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . How do you make it scalable? . But how will you set up the communication?

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service

All Things Distributed

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. containers stopping and starting). As the users grew, Remind wanted the ability to scale horizontally.

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