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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

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Our "serverless" order processing system built on AWS Lambda and API Gateway was humming along, handling 1,000 transactions/minute. A sudden spike in traffic caused Lambda timeouts, API Gateway threw 5xx errors, and customers started tweeting, Why cant I check out?! Then, disaster struck.

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Dynatrace leverages new AWS Lambda extensions for seamless end-to-end observability

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AWS Lambda is the fastest growing technology for serverless workloads and helps developers innovate faster. Figure 1: This is a service flow, showing how a certain microservice depends on a specific Lambda function that fetches real-time data from a public cloud provider. Dynatrace news.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem?

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

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Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js A look under the hood of AWS Lambda. Lambda worker nodes.

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Best Runtime for AWS Lambda Functions

DZone

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without any infrastructure management and it natively supports Java, Go, NodeJS,Net, Python, and Ruby runtimes. We are using simple hello world functions to test invocation times of Lambdas’ by using the AWS SAM templates. Structure of the Template.

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Dynatrace extends distributed tracing for serverless on AWS Lambda (GA)?

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With our enhanced AWS Lambda extension , we bring the power of Dynatrace PurePath 4 automatic tracing technology to serverless function observability. unique capabilities of the enhanced AWS Lambda extension include: An end-to-end distributed tracing view with full visibility?across Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Davis AI.

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Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2

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Dynatrace is proud to partner with AWS to support AWS Lambda functions powered by x86-based processors and Graviton2 Arm-based processors announced earlier this year. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement.

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