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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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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 supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

Dynatrace is proud to be an AWS launch partner in support of Amazon Lambda SnapStart. For AWS Lambda, the largest contributor to startup latency is the time spent initializing an execution environment, which includes loading function code and initializing dependencies. What is Lambda? What is Lambda SnapStart?

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Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. A quick primer on Lambda functions. Dynatrace news. Auto scaling.

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Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. A quick primer on Lambda functions. Dynatrace news. Auto scaling.

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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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Performance Optimization for Multi-Layered Cloud Native AWS Application

DZone

While there is guidance available at the technical implementation of components, e.g., for AWS API Gateway , Lambda functions, etc., A proven mechanism to validate the concurrency requirement is to conduct performance testing.

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