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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. So what exactly does “serverless” mean, and how can your organization benefit from it?

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

Container environments enable enterprises to quickly deploy and develop cloud-native applications that can run anywhere. These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Serverless container services. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

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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. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks). NSDI’20.

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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

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. I blogged a summary of my map camp talk here: Map Camp 2021?—?links

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.