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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. ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. That respondents are paying close attention to serverless reflects a software architecturebest practice:” the need to understand every approach, even those that don’t apply.

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Another New Talk: Elements of Design

Sutter's Mill

In recent years, I’ve been spending a lot of my time leading design work in diverse areas ranging from general- and special-purpose library design, to systems software architecture, to programming language design and evolution, including participating in the crafting of various C++0x language and library features.

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