Modern Software Podcast: The Great Serverless Debate
By Lee Atchison and Clay Smith debate whether serverless technology—like AWS Lambda—is ready for prime time in production environments.
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How to Deploy New Relic Infrastructure Using AWS CloudFormation
By A custom template and step-by-step instructions that make it super easy to launch an Amazon Linux v1 instance with the New Relic Infrastructure agent automatically installed.
Continue Reading6 Priorities for Ops in a ‘Serverless’ World
The server as we know it is dying. Here are my suggestions for where ops folks should focus their time and energy in this brave new DevOps serverless world.
Continue ReadingNew Relic Joins the AWS Serverless Application Repository
By New Relic is now part of the AWS Serverless Application Repository, helping customers ingest, analyze, and alert on enhanced RDS monitoring and VPC flow logs.
Continue ReadingObservability and Instrumentation: What They Are and Why They Matter
At AWS re:Invent, Clay Smith delved into observability and instrumentation, two key concepts for software monitoring in the modern age.
Continue ReadingServerless, Kubernetes Take Center Stage at AWS re:Invent
A big day for serverless and Kubernetes support highlight AWS CEO Andy Jassy’s keynote.
Continue ReadingAWS Lambda in Production: State of Serverless Report 2017
By How customers are using AWS Lambda, and what that says about the present state and possible future of AWS Lambda and serverless functions.
Continue ReadingUsing Custom Metrics and X-Ray Traces to Build Faster Lambda Functions
New AWS data can help you understand the Lambda serverless architecture and gather new metrics for a deeper performance investigation of complex functions.
Continue ReadingUnderstanding AWS Lambda Performance—How Much Do Cold Starts Really Matter?
How understanding AWS Lambda metrics around invocation time can help you make smart operational and cost decisions in a serverless environment.
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