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How to maximize serverless benefits and overcome its challenges

Dynatrace

Some organizations prefer a serverless approach. Serverless computing provides on-demand access to back-end services on a per-use basis. While serverless benefits have driven substantial market growth over the past few years, there are also disadvantages to serverless computing. Reduced latency. Increased agility.

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. So what exactly does “serverless” mean, and how can your organization benefit from it?

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Optimize your observability pipeline for AWS Lambda serverless functions

Dynatrace

For AWS Lambda, Dynatrace provides Lambda Layers for adding distributed tracing to your serverless functions and for capturing metrics and logs from Amazon CloudWatch. Deliver low latency platform metrics: The direct access to platform metrics within the Lambda layer reduces latency adding faster and improved alerting on metric anomalies.

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation. The benefits of serverless Lambda functions.

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Dynatrace supports SnapStart for Lambda as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. On the one hand, logic is divided between API, workflow and serverless functions. debian packages).