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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. NSDI’20. Virtualisation has challenges with density, overheads, and startup times.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

chrismunns : "hey Ops, we're launching next week, can we make sure we can handle 1000 #serverless function invocations?" Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of all global enterprises will have deployed serverless function platforms as a service (fPaaS), up from only 20% today. The virtual CPU is turned off.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

It encompasses private clouds, the IaaS cloud—also host to virtual private clouds (VPC)—and the PaaS and SaaS clouds. In our analysis of user activity on the O’Reilly learning platform , we found that DevOps-related search and usage declined in both 2018 and 2019. Serverless Stagnant. 4 By the same margins—i.e.,

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Serverless frameworks like Nuclio let you utilize cloud technology to reduce your workload, improve scaling and save money on unused resources. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services.

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Did you get your re:Invent holiday wish?

The Symphonia

In this issue of Serverless Insights I’m going to focus on announcements from re:Invent, and “pre:Invent”?—?the Specifically I’m almost entirely going to focus on Serverless, and Serverless related updates. Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still

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