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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS Lambda. AWS monitoring best practices.

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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 traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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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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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. For example, a virtual machine (VM) can replace containers to design and architect microservices.

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cppfront: Spring update

Sutter's Mill

Type and memory safety by default even in this example: Not only is args defaulting to the existing best practices of C++ standard safety with ISO C++ vector and string_view , but the args[0] call is automatically bounds-checked by default too. Again, all fully compatible with today’s C++ (e.g.,

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Optimizing CDN Management Using Terraform

IO River

‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider. Migrating isn't as simple as 'copy-paste'.‍Even

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Optimizing CDN Management Using Terraform

IO River

Terraform's declarative nature makes this adaptation straightforward.‍Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider. As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt. Different providers have different plugins and configurations.