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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS Lambda.

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Performance Optimization for Multi-Layered Cloud Native AWS Application

DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration.

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AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Given the importance of this conversation for various organizations, IT modernization is the focus of AWS re:Invent 2021. Indeed, organizations view IT modernization and cloud computing as intertwined with their business strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. The research estimated a 35% increase in public cloud usage in 2021 alone.

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How to maximize serverless benefits and overcome its challenges

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. However, not all cloud strategies are the same. Some organizations prefer a serverless approach. Serverless computing provides on-demand access to back-end services on a per-use basis. Increased agility.

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AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Digital transformation with AWS: Making it real with AIOps. When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. In fact, Gartner predicts that cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives by 2025 — up from less than 40% in 2021.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

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Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. What are serverless applications?

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AWS Lambda Performance Tuning & Best Practices (2021)

Simform

JANUARY 2, 2021

Efficient configuration of AWS Lambda functions is highly critical when you're expecting an optimal performance of your serverless applications. This blog discusses potential serverless performance bottlenecks and ways through which you can finetune AWS Lambda performance.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

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NServiceBus on AWS Lambda

Particular Software

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The NServiceBus.AwsLambda.Sqs preview package makes it easier than ever to host NServiceBus endpoints in Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Lambda is Amazon’s serverless technology for running your code in the cloud with zero administration. That is where our new AWS Lambda SQS package comes in.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As cloud environments become increasingly complex, legacy solutions can’t keep up with modern demands. As a result, companies run into the cloud complexity wall – also known as the cloud observability wall – as they struggle to manage modern applications and gain multicloud observability with outdated tools.

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. A few best practices.

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

Microservices are run using container-based orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker or cloud-native function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, all of which help automate the process of managing microservices. A few best practices.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

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. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. NSDI’20.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Smaller teams can launch services much faster using flexible containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, or serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. Serverless platforms. So applications don’t have to wrestle over shared resources during runtime. Service mesh.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming

Everything as Code

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. with more being added continually.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

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

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

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