InfoQ

JUNE 26, 2023

Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Azure Serverless Performance Storage 85

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

AWS Lambda is one of the most popular serverless compute services in the market. Serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. Insights into how serverless functions impact user experience.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Infrastructure 130

The Morning Paper

MARCH 19, 2020

Serverless in the wild: characterizing and optimising the serverless workload at a large cloud provider , Shahrad et al., Every once in a while though a point in the design space can be discovered where we don’t have to trade-off quality and cost, where we can have both a higher quality product and a lower unit cost.

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Serverless Cloud Azure Government 73

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding. Left: Lanczos downscaling; right: deep downscaler.

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Network Media Innovation Efficiency 292

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

Hello friendly Serverless Insights subscribers! We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff!

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Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Additionally, with an improved deployment model, applications can run faster and perform better. Application performance improvement reduces costs and deployment time.

Strategy 227

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 227

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. While these serverless services provide strong business benefits due to their flexible on-demand usage and pricing model, they also introduce new complexities for observability. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Risks include performance problems and outages in cloud-native environments, application security vulnerabilities and poor digital experience for customers and other users. Build a proactive approach to cloud operations for increased resilience – Perform 22 session. DevSecOps: Security by design.

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Open Source DevOps Java Innovation 222

InfoQ

MARCH 15, 2024

The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing. By Rafal Gancarz

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Scalability AWS Architecture Lambda 71

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 247

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 232

DZone

JULY 23, 2019

With all the benefits that microservices architecture and cloud-native and serverless applications bring, they also add a lot of complexity from an operations point of view. To successfully support and manage these applications, it has become very important to have full visibility into these distributed applications.

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Development Serverless Monitoring Architecture 171

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. However, these technologies can add to the complexity. At RSA 2022 , the theme is Transform. Automation for application security.

Strategy 225

Strategy Innovation Cloud Serverless 225

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. joins) during query processing.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

shocker) Low performers are almost 4x as likely to use functional outsourcing. Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. All of them are part of GBsec price in serverless. @nicolefv : Outsourcing is a bad idea.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. While this gave client teams a very convenient “serverless” model, over time we ran into multiple operational and devex challenges with this service.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

The design space. We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Serverless o?erings Query performance. Key findings. Query restrictions.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.” Perhaps inspired by serverless in spirit and in terminology, the path forward proposed in this paper is towards a managed and model-less inference serving system.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

The Rust community is also excited about WebAssembly, which this year became a theoretical replacement to C/FFI for ecosystems that need portable, high-performance modules. .” And as Blandy points out, the Rust ecosystem is acting quickly to take advantage of the language’s new expressiveness. ” What lies ahead?

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Programming Java Google C++ 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., While being motivated by serverless use cases, there’s nothing especially serverless about the key-value store, Shredder , this paper reports on. A key challenge… is that serverless functions are stateless.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., The design of Firecracker. By building Firecracker specifically for serverless and container applications, it was possible to make simplifying assumptions opening up a new design point. NSDI’20.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. On the one hand, logic is divided between API, workflow and serverless functions. debian packages).

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions.

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Formal foundations of serverless computing Jangda et al., won a distinguished paper award at OOPSLA this year for their work on ‘Formal foundations of serverless computing.’ They show the conditions under which a serverless function can safely ignore these peculiarities, and thus become much simpler to reason about.

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Serverless Lambda Programming Cache 58

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

InfoQ

APRIL 9, 2024

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 139

Architecture Serverless Mobile Design 139

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The core of a microservice design pattern aims to make each discrete subset of system functionality into its own self-contained unit, known as a microservice.

Cloud 226

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures.

Cloud 244

Cloud Serverless Innovation Architecture 244

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It has invested heavily in usability of the solution and the flexible UI design keeps practitioners in context when exploring performance issues. Precise root-cause answers also mean that teams can automate their hybrid/multicloud operations and enhance their performance and reliability. A new wave of innovation for AIOps. “By

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Artificial Intelligence Serverless Analytics Innovation 250

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

IT, DevOps, and SRE teams are racing to keep up with the ever-expanding complexity of modern enterprise cloud ecosystems and the business demands they are designed to support. Report on the health of the system by measuring performance and resources. Dynatrace news. Leaders in tech are calling for radical change.

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps Serverless 192

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Although redesigning applications sounds daunting, understanding how these architectures work will enable your organization to reap the performance and cost benefits of cloud hyperscalers. These loosely coupled, lightweight services typically perform a single function and can be chained together into an application. Microservices.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162