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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

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Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

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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.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

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This type of monitoring tracks metrics and insights on server CPU, memory, and network health, as well as hosts, containers, and serverless functions. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Virtual machine (VM) monitoring.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

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FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Functional FaaS best practices. This, in turn, helps to maximize resource use.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

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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.

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

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Host analysis focuses on operating systems, virtual machines, and containers to understand if there are software components with known vulnerabilities that can be patched. This is done by scanning targets such as application code, network infrastructure, or virtual machines. Identify vulnerabilities. Analyze findings.

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Azure Well-Architected Framework: What it is and how to tame it with AI and automation

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Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization. Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. Operational excellence. Performance efficiency.

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