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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. When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system.

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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. VMs require their own operating system and take up additional resources.

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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.