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

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FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices.

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

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Serverless platforms provision microservices as needed and shut them down immediately thereafter, allowing applications to be highly flexible, inexpensive to operate, and customizable. To learn more about automatic and intelligent observability, register for our on-demand webinar today. Watch webinar now!

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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

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IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

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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. For example, a virtual machine (VM) can replace containers to design and architect microservices. Serverless platforms.

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What is Google Cloud Functions?

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In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices. Watch webinar now!

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

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Serverless platforms provision microservices as needed and shut them down immediately thereafter, allowing applications to be highly flexible, inexpensive to operate, and customizable. To learn more about automatic and intelligent observability, register for our on-demand webinar today. The post What is a message queue?

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Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

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Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further. While app-centric serverless approaches abstract some of the complexities of cloud-native architecture, as the analyst firm Forrester notes , the next frontier for serverless adoption is at the edge.