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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

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?

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach.

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Open Source at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis.

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Open Source at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Finally the NSDI’20 papers have opened up to the public (as of last week), and what a great looking crop of papers it is. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. NSDI’20. Approaches to isolation.

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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. VMs require their own operating system and take up additional resources. Serverless platforms. API gateways.

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An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems

The Morning Paper

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Operating system and network implications. In section 7, the authors evaluate the performance and cost of running each of the five microservices systems on AWS Lambda instead of EC2.