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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Xtracerx : for me the biggest value to serverless functions is how nicely they tie in to the ecosystem of a cloud provider. How bad is it? There are more quotes, more everything.

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Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

the Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform which is the core of AWS’ larger Serverless service suite. Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. Like Lambda, API Gateway now supports canary deployment / traffic shaping. Let’s dig in!

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Internet of Things (IoT). Serverless Architecture. Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022.

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Devops and the need for cloud based solutions

Testsigma

For example, as the traffic increases, you can allocate two more machines to a particular zone. This is also called serverless computing in general. So, how do you select one of the choices that are presented to you on the internet? The new instances are scaled as per the function and the user is charged accordingly.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. The automation and serverless scalability of Aurora make it Zynga's first choice for new services using relational databases. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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