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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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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications , Agache et al., Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. NSDI’20. Virtualisation has challenges with density, overheads, and startup times.

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Using Docker To Deploy Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

Percona

Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. Introduction Recently, Percona introduced Percona Builds for Neon ( Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL ), which makes it easy to install and experiment with serverless PostgreSQL. Join us at this event if you are interested!

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Multi-tenants and Branches in Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

Percona

Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. Introduction Recently, Percona introduced Percona Builds for Neon ( Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL ), which makes it easy to install and experiment with serverless PostgreSQL. Interested in serverless PostgreSQL?

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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. These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor.

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Dynatrace supports Amazon Linux 2023 as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed. Out of the box, Dynatrace also works with Amazon EC2, Elastic Container Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service, Fargate, and serverless solutions like Lambda. To learn more about Dynatrace and to start your free trial, visit the Dynatrace website.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Serverless container services. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Managed orchestration. CaaS vs. FaaS.