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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. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

Sutter's Mill

Our virtual 2021 We continue to have the same priorities and the same schedule we originally adopted for C++23. However, since the pandemic began, WG21 and its subgroups have had to meet all-virtually via Zoom, and we are not going to try to have a face-to-face meeting in 2021 (see What’s Next below).

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

Smaller teams can launch services much faster using flexible containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, or serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. For example, a virtual machine (VM) can replace containers to design and architect microservices.

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Open Source at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto.

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Open Source at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN304 Learnings from migrating a service from JDK 8 to JDK 11 AWS Lambda improved latency by migrating to JDK 11 with Amazon Corretto.