The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. NSDI’20. Virtualisation has challenges with density, overheads, and startup times.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Host analysis focuses on operating systems, virtual machines, and containers to understand if there are software components with known vulnerabilities that can be patched. These can include the configuration of operating system access controls and the use of unnecessary libraries or system services.

Infrastructure 174

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 174

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

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. Serverless platforms.

Architecture 205

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 205

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. with more being added continually.

Code 110

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110