The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. NSDI’20. This also makes any solution very sensitive to per-function (per isolation unit) overheads.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Serverless container services. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Managed orchestration. CaaS vs. FaaS.

Serverless 224

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 224

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. But how does FaaS fit in?

Development 259

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 259

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

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.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 209

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137