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November 2021

Ocean for Apache Spark - Serverless Spark now available in preview on AWS

The cloud native revolution brought by Kubernetes has transformed the way we build and deliver software, but the world of big data has for too long been left on the side of this transformation. Thanks to many contributions from the open source community, Apache Spark integration on top of Kubernetes is now officially generally available with the recent releases this year.

Azure Security Tips & Tricks

In our very first episode, we have got Paul Stringfellow, the podcast enthusiast with proven ideas to help you enhance the security of your Azure infrastructure. This episode features an in-depth conversation of “why security” should be the top priority for any organization designing an infrastructure/application. Further, the expert shows how different it is to secure a cloud solution than an on-premise one, emphasizing that traditional security models are no longer the right way to protect complex cloud integrations.

Dashbird explained

Dashbird is an observability, debugging, and intelligence platform designed specifically to help serverless developers build, operate, improve, and scale their modern cloud applications on AWS environment fast, securely, and with ease. It’s free to use for up to 1M invocations and doesn’t require any code changes. Dashbird fills the gaps left by CloudWatch and other traditional monitoring tools by offering enhanced out-of-the-box monitoring, operations, and actionable insights tools for architectural improvements, all in one place.

Announcing support for Windows containers on AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications with services such as Amazon ECS without needing to manage the underlying virtual machines. Deploying with Fargate removes operational overhead and lowers costs by enabling your infrastructure to dynamically scale to meet demand. We are proud to partner with AWS for its launch of support for AWS Fargate on Windows containers.

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.

Sumo Logic extends monitoring for AWS Fargate powered by AWS Graviton2 processors

Back in 2018, AWS first released its Graviton processor—their custom-built 64-bit Arm processor—and followed that with the release of Graviton2 processors just a year later. Now customers running ECS and EKS on EC2 can choose between X86 and ARM64 depending on which processor best fits their application workload.

Overcoming Common Serverless Challenges in Production

Serverless has been around for a while now and is rapidly maturing day by day. Serverless Guru has been building serverless applications for clients since 2018 and we’ve learned some serious lessons first hand. In this talk, Serverless Guru founder Ryan Jones and AWS Serverless Hero and Lumigo Developer Advocate Yan Cui, will dive into some common challenges in production applications they have seen and how they’ve built solutions to overcome them.

AWS Lambda Pricing Model Explained With Examples

In this article we’ll go through the ins and outs of AWS Lambda pricing model, how it works, what additional charges you might be looking at and what’s in the fine print. Money makes the wold go round. Unfortunately, it is a necessity in almost all spheres of life. You can live without it or with lesser amounts of it, but it makes it all harder. If you wish to have it, first, you need to give it, as always. Even AWS Lambda is not free.

Tutorial: Build Serverless functions with C#

The world of cloud computing has been revolutionized by a solution called serverless computing. It has been an absolute joy for developers to use. Before this innovation, developers had to worry about the resources powering their code. Since the launch of serverless computing, the developer’s focus on operating-system and hardware architecture is now a thing of the past. It handles all the server management while focusing on what you do well — writing good quality code.

Deploying your first Serverless REST API within minutes

In this video, we'll show you how to get started with the serverless framework in minutes. To make sure your app will be running smoothly at all times, we'll also take you through how to set up observability for debugging, alerting, and troubleshooting so that you don't miss any critical errors and warning signs.

How to Measure and Improve Your Serverless Application's Health

This article will cover how the health of your serverless application can be measured and improved. Technology and its implementation methodology evolve with time very rapidly. Cost efficiency and productivity are the key drivers of technological evolution these days. With the advent of the cloud, infrastructure costs have been brought down significantly. Serverless technology adds icing to the cake!

Advanced Service Bus Dead lettering with BAM

In the real world, when we implement systems, there are often many kinds of users, such as super business users and some level 1 support technicians who understand the application domain and can support a lot of your applications. Still, due to limited skills and experience with Azure, they are constrained to how much of the application they can help. A great example of this is when you have a solution that uses Azure Service Bus.

Serverless Observability: It's easier than you think!

Observability is a measure of how well the internal state of a system can be inferred from its external outputs. It helps us understand what is happening in our application and troubleshoot problems when they arise. It’s an essential part of running production workloads and providing a reliable service that attracts and retains satisfied customers.

Epsagon-to-Lumigo: a step-by-step migration guide

At Lumigo. we believe in serverless technology, and our mission is to make serverless development easy and fast. For the past few months, we’ve been extending our observability and debugging capabilities, making it a breeze for developers to understand the end-to-end story of every request that goes through the system, find the root causes of issues and be able to easily address them.

We raised $29 million in new funding. Here's what we're going to do with it

Today we are announcing an additional $29 million in funding to help Lumigo grow and provide the same powerful observability capabilities we brought to serverless to other cloud-native technologies, including containers and Kubernetes. Lumigo was founded by Aviad Mor and me a few years ago because we believed the world would be rapidly moving to cloud-native architectures and that these technologies are transformative. Our goal was to create the tools that help developers realize this vision.