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

Dynatrace

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. 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. Functional FaaS best practices.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

Let’s explore this concept as we look at the best practices and solutions you should keep in mind to overcome the wall and keep up with today’s fast-paced and intricate cloud landscape. Another aspect of microservices is how the service itself relates to the underlying hardware. What is the cloud observability wall?

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

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. A modern commodity server can contain up to 1TB of RAM, and Lambda functions can use as little as 128MB.