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Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
How to Overcome Challenges With AWS Lambda Logging
Monitoring AWS Lambda can be a complex and potentially costly endeavor. Here’s what you need to know to stay on track and on budget Organizations are already experiencing a shift toward serverless cloud computing. According to the O’Reilly “Serverless Survey 2019,” around 40% of respondents said they had implemented serverless architecture. Forrester “Global Business Technographics” […]
Securing Internet-Facing Portals
Against the backdrop of the current pandemic, barely a day goes by without another portal or web application being launched to help citizens and customers interact with governments and corporations. Bringing these applications to market quickly, and ensuring they can’t compromise the security of the organization, requires DevOps to embrace news techniques and technologies. So, […]
Why Organizations Are Adopting or Avoiding Serverless
For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: More than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community. Below we examine three of the most […]
DevOps 2.0: A New Evolution of Serverless Cloud Architecture
Science teaches us to formulate hypotheses and test them experimentally to advance systematically. While this sounds logical, DevOps—and software architecture in particular—does not follow this approach because current tools make this too cumbersome. So, architecture choices are frequently made by HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion). However, the rate of development, especially in the serverless or […]