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

Dynatrace

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. What are serverless applications?

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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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Web Development Trends in 2023

KeyCDN

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Figure 5: Experimental PostgreSQL Vacuum Monitoring What about serverless?

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. This type of monitoring tracks metrics and insights on server CPU, memory, and network health, as well as hosts, containers, and serverless functions. Website monitoring. Cloud-server monitoring. Cloud storage monitoring.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic. It’s like a well-maintained highway where you can cruise without any traffic jams.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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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