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Serverless observability, what can you use out of the box?

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 …

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how to do fan-out and fan-in with AWS Lambda

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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What is the best event source for doing pub-sub with AWS Lambda?

AWS offers a wealth of options for implementing messaging patterns such as pub-sub with Lambda, let’s compare and contrast some of these options. The pub-sub pattern Publish-Subscribe (often shortened to pub-sub) is a messaging pattern where publishers and subscribers are decoupled through an intermediary broker (ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, SNS, etc.). SNS + Lambda In the AWS ecosystem, the obvious …

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This blog is now serverless!

I have been thinking about different hosting options for this blog for some time, even just to stop my friends from joking about the fact that I have been so vocal about Serverless technologies and yet, my personal blog runs on WordPress! However, as someone who enjoys writing and have little interest in fiddling with …

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AWS Lambda – monolithic functions won’t help you with cold starts

After my post on monolithic functions vs single-purposed functions, a few people asked me about the effect monolithic functions have on cold starts, so I thought I’d share my thoughts here. The question goes something like this: Monolithic functions are invoked more frequently so they are less likely to be in cold state, while single-purposed …

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Serverless observability brings new challenges to current practices

This is a the first in a mini series that accompanies my “the present and future of Serverless observability” talk at ServerlessConf Paris and QCon London. part 1 : new challenges to observability <- you’re here part 2 : first party observability tools from AWS part 3 : 3rd party observability tools part 4 : the future of Serverless observability 2017 …

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AWS Lambda – how best to manage shared code and shared infrastructure

In the last post I discussed the pros & cons of following the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) when moving to the serverless paradigm. One of the questions that popped up on both Twitter and Medium is “how do you deal with shared code?”. It is a FAQ whenever I speak at user groups or conferences about AWS Lambda, alongside “how do …

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