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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

DZone

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

Dynatrace

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 since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

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? Dynatrace news.

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Lambda functions can be written in the language of your choice, and the service also supports container tools. AWS Step Functions: Step Functions focuses on orchestration. Data Store.

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Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda)

Smashing Magazine

Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS.

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Enhancing Resiliency: Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern for Strong Serverless Architecture on AWS

DZone

AWS offers various serverless services, with AWS Lambda being one of the most prominent. Resiliency is the ability of a system to handle and recover from faults, and it's vital in a serverless environment for a few reasons: Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure.

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

Dynatrace

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing.