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Breaking AWS Lambda: Chaos Engineering for Serverless Devs

DZone

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.

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. While these serverless services provide strong business benefits due to their flexible on-demand usage and pricing model, they also introduce new complexities for observability. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions.

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

DZone

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. AWS offers various serverless services, with AWS Lambda being one of the most prominent. When we talk about " serverless ," it doesn't mean servers are absent.

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

Dynatrace

With our enhanced AWS Lambda extension , we bring the power of Dynatrace PurePath 4 automatic tracing technology to serverless function observability. Serverless can accelerate innovation (and introduce blind spots). However, while they provide significant benefits, serverless functions also pose several challenges.

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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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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. Increased agility. Reduced latency.

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IT teams seek observability for, and control over, serverless architecture

Dynatrace

Key takeaways from this article on modern observability for serverless architecture: As digital transformation accelerates, organizations need to innovate faster and continually deliver value to customers. Companies often turn to serverless architecture to accelerate modernization efforts while simplifying IT management.