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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

DZone

MARCH 24, 2025

The Day Our Serverless Dream Turned into a Nightmare It was 3 PM on a Tuesday. Our "serverless" order processing system built on AWS Lambda and API Gateway was humming along, handling 1,000 transactions/minute. Our resilient serverless setup had no fallbacks, retries, or plans for chaos. Then, disaster struck.

Lambda

Lambda Serverless AWS Engineering

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. What are serverless applications?

Serverless

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. AWS provides a suite of technologies and serverless tools for running modern applications in the cloud. AWS Lambda. AWS: A service for everything.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

Dynatrace PurePath 4 integrates OpenTelemetry and the latest cloud-native technologies and provides analytics and AI at scale

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Every tap in a mobile app triggers requests that, potentially, travel through a myriad of microservices, routed from one service to the next by service meshes, calling several serverless functions. FaaS like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions are seamlessly integrated with no code changes. Davis doesn’t rely on data correlation.

Analytics

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud

So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic

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

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

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.

Serverless

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure

Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. If you are running serverless with AWS Lambda, you’ve also bypassed the need for a platform team to run it, the serverless platform takes care of those concerns. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.

Engineering

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has 40 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda

Monitoring Serverless Applications

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless. Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Benefits of a Serverless Model. Disadvantages of a Serverless Model.

Serverless

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency

Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the the industry and Lambda platform both have moved forward a long way since. This year’s re:Invent saw a lot of incremental improvements for Lambda and its related services. We saw some big new products and features from Lambda’s AWS neighbors.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic

A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In-memory: Financial services, Ecommerce, web, and mobile application have use cases such as leaderboards, session stores, and real-time analytics that require microsecond response times and can have large spikes in traffic coming at any time. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

Database

Database AWS Games Latency

Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Serverless is a highly dynamic area and two years is a lifetime in this world.

Serverless

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Serverless Architecture. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. So, they can deploy applications developed on serverless models within less time.

Blockchain

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless

Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. Using Lambda@Edge and Cloudflare Workers you can already perform A/B testing, authentication, and authorisation, intelligent routing, etc.

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Systems Cache Website Network

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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

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Monitoring Serverless Applications

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

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