InfoQ

MARCH 15, 2024

The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.

Scalability 71

Scalability AWS Architecture Lambda 71

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. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. While these serverless services provide strong business benefits due to their flexible on-demand usage and pricing model, they also introduce new complexities for observability. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

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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Lambda AWS Serverless Programming 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

With our enhanced AWS Lambda extension , we bring the power of Dynatrace PurePath 4 automatic tracing technology to serverless function observability. unique capabilities of the enhanced AWS Lambda extension include: An end-to-end distributed tracing view with full visibility?across Dynatrace news.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Mobile 209

High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. All of them are part of GBsec price in serverless.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We’ve worked closely with our partner AWS to deliver a complete, end-to-end picture of your cloud environment that includes monitoring support for all AWS services. Now Dynatrace is pleased to announce another industry first: automatic, end-to-end observability for AWS Lambda functions in Node.js and Python via traces.

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Lambda AWS Programming Serverless 294

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

coryodaniel : Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir. it’s not Serverless anymore it’s running in a few containers on a kubernetes cluster. They'll love you even more. million : lost in ATM malware hack; $1.5 myelixirstatus !#Serverless.No Serverless.No

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) S3 on AWS). From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Elasticity.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. The design space. Serverless o?erings VLDB’19.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS.

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Lambda Serverless Testing AWS 118

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Formal foundations of serverless computing Jangda et al., won a distinguished paper award at OOPSLA this year for their work on ‘Formal foundations of serverless computing.’ They show the conditions under which a serverless function can safely ignore these peculiarities, and thus become much simpler to reason about.

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Serverless Lambda Programming Cache 58

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture. Experienced developers see microservice design patterns as more platform-agnostic. Serverless platforms.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The core of a microservice design pattern aims to make each discrete subset of system functionality into its own self-contained unit, known as a microservice.

Cloud 226

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Today’s paper choice is a fresh-from-the-arXivs take on serverless computing from the RISELab at Berkeley, addressing some of the limitations outlined in last year’s ‘ Berkeley view on serverless computing.’ Cloudburst’s design includes consistent mutable caches in the compute tier.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. 3) Serverless will rocket. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” 202,157 flights tracked! Me : Nothing special.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While there are multiple ways to define cloud-native architecture, a consensus has formed around the following characteristics: Designed for automation. The principles of cloud-native architecture. Teams can capture and analyze metrics, logs, traces, and user-experience data in the context of dependencies among services and infrastructure.

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Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What it means to be cloud-native has gone through several evolutions: VM to container to serverless. For example, AWS created Nitro. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Therefore, they are designed to adapt to the browser, screen size, and device specifications of the user. 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.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development. Serverless Architecture. Single Page Applications (SPAs). Dark Mode.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When you can’t see a process in action, the whole thing can feel a little bit like magic — something that isn’t helped by the insistence of certain companies on adding words like “cloud” and “serverless” to their product names. The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. More after jump!

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. The opposite is true. Take Expedia, for example.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Addressing Many Pages With Rare Visits Adopting the AWS CloudFront CDN significantly improved our website’s performance.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

When an observability solution also analyzes user experience data using synthetic and real-user monitoring, you can discover problems before your users do and design better user experiences based on real, immediate feedback. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Benefits of observability.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Note : An Azure Functions app is an individual serverless function deployed and managed using the Azure Functions service. Note : While this article makes use of Azure Functions as a provider of serverless functions, you can reuse the logic in your preferred provider, such as AWS’ Lambda or Google’s Cloud Functions. environment.

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Azure Serverless Code Testing 96

ScaleOut Software

MAY 19, 2020

This code can be thought of as similar to a serverless function with the major distinction that it is automatically supplied contextual information and does not have to maintain it in an external data store. Application code can generate alerts, command devices, update the contextual information, and read or update databases as needed.

Logistics 52

Logistics IoT Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 19, 2020

This code can be thought of as similar to a serverless function with the major distinction that it is automatically supplied contextual information and does not have to maintain it in an external data store. Application code can generate alerts, command devices, update the contextual information, and read or update databases as needed.

Logistics 52

Logistics IoT Analytics Azure 52