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How to maximize serverless benefits and overcome its challenges

Dynatrace

Some organizations prefer a serverless approach. Serverless computing provides on-demand access to back-end services on a per-use basis. While serverless benefits have driven substantial market growth over the past few years, there are also disadvantages to serverless computing. Reduced latency. Increased agility.

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Using Docker To Deploy Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

Percona

Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. Introduction Recently, Percona introduced Percona Builds for Neon ( Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL ), which makes it easy to install and experiment with serverless PostgreSQL. Join us at this event if you are interested!

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Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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

O'Reilly

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. Monitoring SLOs and testing them in pre-production with intelligent quality gates to detect issues earlier in the development cycle.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Through our experimentation, involving objective measurements and subjective visual tests, we found that the deep downscaler improves quality across various conventional video codecs and encoding configurations. Our A/B tests showed QoE improvements without any adverse streaming impact. over the traditional Lanczos downscaling.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. While this gave client teams a very convenient “serverless” model, over time we ran into multiple operational and devex challenges with this service.

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