The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. NSDI’20. Virtualisation has challenges with density, overheads, and startup times.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of all global enterprises will have deployed serverless function platforms as a service (fPaaS), up from only 20% today. The virtual CPU is turned off.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 231

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

chrismunns : "hey Ops, we're launching next week, can we make sure we can handle 1000 #serverless function invocations?" Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It encompasses private clouds, the IaaS cloud—also host to virtual private clouds (VPC)—and the PaaS and SaaS clouds. In our analysis of user activity on the O’Reilly learning platform , we found that DevOps-related search and usage declined in both 2018 and 2019. Serverless Stagnant. 4 By the same margins—i.e.,

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 141

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Serverless frameworks like Nuclio let you utilize cloud technology to reduce your workload, improve scaling and save money on unused resources. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

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

Lambda 40

Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40