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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. Let’s take a closer look at what observability in dynamic AWS environments means, why it’s so important, and some AWS monitoring best practices. AWS Lambda. AWS monitoring best practices.

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

Dynatrace

When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. To address these issues, organizations that want to digitally transform are adopting cloud observability technology as a best practice. Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them.

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

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. Microservices benefits.

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

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. Microservices benefits.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

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. Three popular open source options include the following: Prometheus stores metrics in a time-series database.

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Optimizing CDN Management Using Terraform

IO River

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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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. Firecracker is open source, and there are a number of projects that make it easy to work with outside of the AWS environment too, including Weave Firekube (disclaimer: Accel is an investor in Weaveworks).