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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?

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

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Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

The Morning Paper

Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. Consistency.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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What is Serverless Architecture?

cdemi

Serverless systems are still in their infancy. Cost - Serverless Computing is more cost-efficient than having a fixed quantity of servers. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Amazon: AWS Lambda. Advantages and Disadvantages of Serverless. Advantages. IBM: OpenWhisk.