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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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The keys to selecting a platform for end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

This enables proactive changes such as resource autoscaling, traffic shifting, or preventative rollbacks of bad code deployment ahead of time. Get to the root cause of issues Most AI today uses machine learning models like neural networks that find correlations and make predictions based on them.

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

Dynatrace

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?

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

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: A service for everything. Amazon EC2.

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Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Dynatrace

Dynatrace provides information on every request, through every single microservice or serverless function, ultimately eliminating existing blind spots or visibility gaps in end-to-end traces. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Network performance monitoring top of mind for CloudOps teams

Dynatrace

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. It’s more complex than it sounds.” As cloud entities multiply, along with greater reliance on microservices and serverless architectures, so do the complex relationships and dependencies among them.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

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.