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    AWS Lambda under the Hood

    Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood during QCon San Francisco 2023. This article represents the talk, which will start with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals, which will facilitate a deep dive into the understanding of the system.

    Mike Danilov
    on Mar 14, 2024
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    Lambda Throttling - How to Avoid It?

    This article aims to explain best practices if you have throttled your application and services and suggestions for how to handle these cases. We performed an in-house experiment at Jit (a SaaS-based DevSecOps platform) built on serverless to learn how our application behaves.

    Shlomi Kushchi
    on Feb 02, 2023
  • Cloud

    Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions

    AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.

    Pratik Das
    on Sep 01, 2022
  • Cloud

    A Recipe to Migrate and Scale Monoliths in the Cloud

    In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

    Luciano Mammino
    on May 13, 2022
  • Cloud

    Serverless Solution to Offload Polling for Asynchronous Operation Status Using Amazon S3

    This article proposes a solution to redirect the polling part to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - a highly available, scalable, and secured object storage service managed by Amazon Web Services public cloud provider (AWS). It will present a serverless implementation using AWS Lambda functions, but this is not mandatory if you want to use S3.

    Cristian Gherghinescu
    on Nov 01, 2021
  • Cloud

    Book Review: Alexa Skills Projects by Madhur Bhargava

    In this book, Barghava introduces developers to Alexa and the Amazon platform that can be used to build skills. The book includes many hands-on examples and allows developers to quickly experience conversational application development. At the end of the book, Barghava provides a glimpse into the future and provides readers with some of his insights on the future of digital assistant capabilities.

    Madhur Bhargava Kent Weare
    on Mar 13, 2019
  • Cloud

    Five Steps to Migrate Unisys Mainframes to AWS

    If you have a Unisys mainframe, you may be thinking that cloud computing isn’t an option. But cloud computing has quickly matured, as have the offerings of service providers like AWS, and it’s now proving itself to be a viable option for running mainframe application workloads.

    Craig Marble
    on Jul 16, 2017
  • Cloud

    InfoQ Virtual Panel: A Practical Approach to Serverless Computing

    Add serverless computing to the growing list of options developers have when building software. Serverless products—more accurately referred to as Functions-as-a-Service—offer incredible simplicity, but at a cost. To learn more about this exciting space and the practical implications, InfoQ reached out to three experienced technologists.

    Richard Seroter
    on Jun 15, 2017
  • Cloud

    The Three Generations of AWS

    When building a new system on AWS we are faced with three architectural choices around application packaging, runtime service and load balancing service. This article looks at these three options, and concludes that the Amazon EC2 Container Service provides the best architectural option for today's applications.

    Noah Zoschke
    on Oct 21, 2016
  • Cloud

    Article Series: Cloud and "Lock-in"

    With the fast-pace of cloud changes (new services, providers entering and exiting), cloud lock-in remains a popular refrain. But what does it mean, and how can you ensure you're maximizing your cloud investment while keeping portability in mind?

    Richard Seroter
    on Jul 01, 2016
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