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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem? Dynatrace news.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.

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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

AWS Certified Database – Specialty: Database specialists with deep knowledge of relational and non-relational databases and some AWS experience might want to check out this certification. However, AWS recommends getting the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate or an equivalent Associate-level cert beforehand.

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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

> system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5, > system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5, That’s why an algorithm is needed to take out the guesswork.

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Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

The Morning Paper

It’s a fancy sounding name, but it’s essentially the same design as we’ve been using in enterprise applications for decades now: think application server with an L2 ORM cache sat in front of a relational database. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network.

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Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. x has seen several new additions to System tasks, mostly contributed by the community: Lambda Lambda Task executes ad-hoc logic at Workflow run-time, using the Nashorn Javascript evaluator engine. As such, Conductor 2.x

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

To maintain the quality of Lerner APIs, we are using the server-less paradigm for Lerner’s own integration testing by utilizing AWS Lambda. The agent training library exposes different types of learning agents that utilize neural networks to approximate action. Experiment with different neural network architectures.

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