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After watching the talks at Monitorama for a few years, I finally have the chance to attend this year and share my insights on serverless observability on Wednesday. Day 1 was great (despite my massive jet lag!), and the talks were mostly focused on the human side of monitoring. Of the talks two stood out …
Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my talk at the recent AWS User Group meetup is now live! In this talk, I introduced the core concepts of chaos engineering, and the challenges that the Serverless paradigm brings to the existing tools and practices we use. I then looked at techniques …
Video and slides for my talk “applying principles of chaos engineering to Serverless” Read More »
Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my keynote at ServerlessDays TLV is now live! In this talk, I looked at a number of important lessons we learnt from the Microservices world and how they are still relevant to us as move to Serverless, and we can apply past learnings and …
Video and slides for my talk “applying best parts of Microservices to Serverless” Read More »
Hi, welcome to another weekly update, which is sadly turning into more of a monthly update MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless A new unit on X-Ray integration has been added to the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) of my video course Production-Ready Serverless. After a brief hiatus, I’m back working on the next unit on correlation …
In a previous post we discussed how to auto-subscribe a CloudWatch Log Group to a Lambda function using CloudWatch Events. So that we don’t need a manual process to ensure all Lambda logs would go to our log aggregation service. Whilst this is useful in its own right, it only scratches the surface of what …
auto-create CloudWatch Alarms for APIs with Lambda Read More »
Hi, welcome to the second edition of my weekly updates. Come join me at DAZN It’s been a hectic first few weeks at DAZN for me. If you haven’t heard about us, we’re the Netflix of Sports – an affordable platform for streaming live sports. We are launched in 5 countries, with many more to …
It’s common practice to set log level to WARNING for production due to traffic volume. This is because we have to consider various cost factors: cost of logging : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.50 per GB ingested. In my experience, this is often much higher than the Lambda invocation costs cost of storage : CloudWatch Logs charges $0.03 …
part 1 : new challenges to observability part 2 : 1st party observability tools from AWS <- you are here part 3 : 3rd party observability tools part 4: the future of Serverless observability In part 1 we talked about the challenges serverless brings to the table. In this post, let’s look at 1st party tools from AWS …
Serverless observability, what can you use out of the box? Read More »
In the last post, we look at how you can implement pub-sub with AWS Lambda. We compared several event sources you can use, SNS, Kinesis streams and DynamoDB streams, and the tradeoffs available to you. Let’s look at another messaging pattern today, push-pull, which is often referred to as fan-out/fan-in. It’s really two separate patterns …
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