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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. So what exactly does “serverless” mean, and how can your organization benefit from it?

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we’ll be looking at one of the most anticipated papers of this year’s crop: Amazon’s Firecracker. NSDI’20. The design of Firecracker.

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Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

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For AWS Lambda, the largest contributor to startup latency is the time spent initializing an execution environment, which includes loading function code and initializing dependencies. Most enterprises use serverless functions as part of a broader hybrid environment, covering both cloud and traditional technologies. What is Lambda?

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Dynatrace supports the newly released AWS Lambda Response Streaming

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Now, customers can use streamed responses to build more responsive applications by sending partial responses to clients as the response becomes available. What is a Lambda serverless function? Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run.

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

Dynatrace

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. What is FaaS?

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Everything as Code

Dynatrace

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. And, applying the “Everything as Code” principles can greatly help achieve that. Benefits of Everything as Code.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

One large team generally maintains the source code in a centralized repository that’s visible to all engineers, who commit their code in a single build. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code. Common problems with monolithic architecture.