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AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency: Build High-performance Serverless Applications at Scale

Simform

AWS Lambda provides various benefits such as scalability, cost-efficiency, high availability, and more. This blog discusses how Lambda provisioned concurrency reduces cold starts and improves the speed and performance of your applications.

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Radically speed up your code by fixing slow or frequent garbage collection

Dynatrace

However, garbage collection is one of the main sources of performance and scalability issues in any modern Java application. Depending on your application, you may be faced with one of these challenges: Slow garbage collection : This can impact your CPU massively and can also be the main reason for scalability issues.

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Dynatrace launches automatic end-to-end observability via traces for AWS Lambda (Preview program)

Dynatrace

Now Dynatrace is pleased to announce another industry first: automatic, end-to-end observability for AWS Lambda functions in Node.js By leveraging the AWS Lambda Extensions API , Dynatrace brings the unique value of its Davis AI-engine for fully automatic root cause analysis to AWS Lambda. and Python via traces.

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability. Lambda functions can be written in the language of your choice, and the service also supports container tools. Reliability.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

sapessi : Lambda simplifies concurrency at the frontend, enforcing one event per function at a time. 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most. This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. It was a quiet week this week.

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

Dynatrace

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. 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. Dynatrace news. What is FaaS?

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

All Things Distributed

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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