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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor.

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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

NMAP is an example of a well-known open-source network scanner. Host analysis focuses on operating systems, virtual machines, and containers to understand if there are software components with known vulnerabilities that can be patched. This also determines if identity management and access control policies are in place.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. 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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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

Serverless platforms provision microservices as needed and shut them down immediately thereafter, allowing applications to be highly flexible, inexpensive to operate, and customizable. It isn’t surprising that 99% of large organizations either use microservices now or plan to in the future. Message queue software options to consider.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

Serverless platforms provision microservices as needed and shut them down immediately thereafter, allowing applications to be highly flexible, inexpensive to operate, and customizable. It isn’t surprising that 99% of large organizations either use microservices now or plan to in the future. Message queue software options to consider.

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Did you get your re:Invent holiday wish?

The Symphonia

In this issue of Serverless Insights I’m going to focus on announcements from re:Invent, and “pre:Invent”?—?the Specifically I’m almost entirely going to focus on Serverless, and Serverless related updates. Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still

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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. NSDI’20. Virtualisation has challenges with density, overheads, and startup times. The design of Firecracker.