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What is AWS Lambda?

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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? Dynatrace news.

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

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Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. Serverless architecture offers several benefits for enterprises. Simplicity. Data Store.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

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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. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

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PaulDJohnston : Lambda done badly is still better than Kubernetes done well. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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

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DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. Let me expand on each one of them.

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Monitoring Serverless Applications

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those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Scalability. Like we previously mentioned, most of the responsibility of managing the server resources are put on the cloud provider, including scaling up and down.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. Customers also use a variety of different tools, including Amazon EMR for Hadoop, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Data Pipeline, and AWS Lambda to process and analyze their data. Big data challenges.

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