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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.”

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Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

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A Day with Kotlin

Software Architecture

Kotlin’s type system eliminates the danger of null references from code. A Day with Kotlin was originally published in Software Architecture on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. In Java, this is known as NullPointerException or NPE.

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What are our re:Invent predictions? And updates!

The Symphonia

We joke, it’s about Lambda, of course. When precisely that will be is partly down to us, and partly down to whatever gifts Ajay Nair and the rest of the Lambda team give to us over the coming months that completely derail our outline. Remote Lambda Debugging support . C’mon Lambda team! But the book part is for real.

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What is Serverless Architecture?

cdemi

Serverless systems are still in their infancy. There will be many advances in the field over the coming years and it will be fascinating to see how they fit into our architectural toolkit. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Amazon: AWS Lambda. Disadvantages.

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Another New Talk: Elements of Design

Sutter's Mill

In recent years, I’ve been spending a lot of my time leading design work in diverse areas ranging from general- and special-purpose library design, to systems software architecture, to programming language design and evolution, including participating in the crafting of various C++0x language and library features.

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic.