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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

Using a FaaS model makes it possible to scale up individual application functions as needed rather than increase total resource allocation for your entire application, which helps reduce total resource costs and improve overall app efficiency. AWS serverless offerings. AWS Step Functions: Step Functions focuses on orchestration. Data Store.

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Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

The Morning Paper

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. And on top of that, you're doing computation at the edge using Lambda@Edge, where you've deployed thousands of lines of JavaScript code at the edge.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. But since they don't rely much on dynamic content, but rely more upon static content that can be cached at the edge.

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Optimizing CDN Management Using Terraform

IO River

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started Easy MaintenanceWhen we say “easy maintenance,” it’s not a vague promise.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

Lastly, the whole website was very slow to load - CDN caching was not effective as a large number of pages were personalised for pricing and availability depending on suburb and postcode. GraphQL - created and open sourced by Facebook - is a powerful query language for APIs and a more efficient alternative to REST.

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