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Webinar: Debugging Lambda Performance Issues

One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures, and specifically, AWS Lambda, is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, or Stripe. In this webinar, we will focus on how to monitor, detect, and fix latency issues that arise when our Lambda functions need to talk to other services. Some of the topics we will cover include:

Serverless for Enterprises: Scale big or go home

We discuss quite a bit about going serverless for SMEs and startups, however it’s often those with an already huge infrastructure, such as enterprises, that can find the move and change daunting. We see many companies from the likes of Coca-Cola to Netflix managing it but what does it look like in action? In this article, we share some best practices and insights on the serverless designs that can scale massively and represent enterprise models.

An IT Exec Charts a New Path Amid New Realities

If you’re the chief IT executive of a Fortune 500 company right now, all eyes are on you. You need to be the hero, the light in the gloom, the one to deliver your company from the brink of economic disaster in a year like no other. If you’re Rob Carter, Executive VP of Information Services at FedEx, you’ve been working toward this moment for years. Carter was the keynote speaker at the Enterprise IT Virtual Event on July 23, hosted by Data Center Knowledge.

An easy button for AWS Spot Management? A conversation with Taloflow's new partner, Xosphere

At Taloflow, we’re proud to introduce to you our newest partner, Xosphere. The Xosphere™ Instance Orchestrator™ intelligently manages AWS Spot instances to give your applications 100% reliability at a fraction of the EC2 cost. Customers of Taloflow can use Xosphere in conjunction with Taloflow’s services to seamlessly identify candidates for Spot Management and monitor improvements in EC2 efficiency.

Technical introduction to Ocean by Spot: Serverless infrastructure engine for containers and Kubernetes

When it comes to modern container orchestration, there are a variety of control plane solutions for managing your applications in a containerized environment. Users can opt for managed services (i.e. Amazon EKS and ECS, Google GKE and Azure AKS) or run their own orchestration with Kubernetes. However, the dynamic nature of containers introduces operational complexities that can make your cloud infrastructure difficult to manage.

Using Cloud Logging on GKE

Looking to debug and troubleshoot your workloads that are on Google Kubernetes Engine? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how Cloud Logging ingests your GKE workloads, and what tools allow you greater observability over log data. Watch to learn how you can efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs from your queries with Cloud Logging!

Chaos Engineering for DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is fast, powerful, and intended for high availability. These are all valuable attributes in a data storage solution, but to be useful as advertised, it must be configured thoughtfully. Learn how to use Chaos Engineering to ensure DynamoDB performs the way you expect. In this guide, we cover: Amazon DynamoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases and is the data store of choice for many teams running production workloads in AWS.

Cloud logging

There’s no tool that can replace the best practices for DevOps or SRE, but there is a tool that can allow you greater observability over your logs in a distributed infrastructure involving multiple products. In this episode of Google Cloud Platform Essentials, we show you how logs are aggregated for all Google Cloud products, how to utilize them, and how to use them for tracking application errors.