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

Adrian Cockcroft

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. This is only one of many microservices that make up the Prime Video application.

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AWS re:Invent 2022 guide: Cloud application modernization remains key issue

Dynatrace

Many organizations turn to cloud migration and cloud application modernization to gain the benefits of serverless environments, such as flexibility, scalability, and more cost-effective cloud infrastructure. . How to maximize serverless benefits and overcome its challenges – blog . What is serverless computing?

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

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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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. 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. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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