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.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

AWS 155

AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Bill English : What we did was lease two video circuits from the phone company. That was our video link. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. Serverless is for startups who can't afford their own.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

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.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75