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Choosing the Best AWS Serverless Computing Solution

Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular in software development due to its flexibility of development and the ability it affords to test out and run solutions with minimal overhead cost. Vendors like AWS provide various tools that enable businesses to develop and deploy solutions without investing in or setting up hardware infrastructures. In this post, we’ll cover the many different services that AWS provides for supporting serverless computing.

Splunk Observability Cloud: Cutting through the complexity of modern applications

As infrastructure modernizes, it becomes more complex and more difficult to monitor and operate. To truly understand what your systems are doing, you need full-stack, end-to-end observability. We built Splunk Observability Cloud to eliminate your blind spots and go from alert to problem resolution in seconds–not hours. Splunk Observability Cloud provides one unified experience for seamless monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution across any stack, at any scale.

3 Major Ways To Improve AWS Lambda Performance

This piece was originally three different blogs but is now one. In this piece, we lay out three ways you can improve your AWS Lambda performance. So much has been written about Lambda cold starts. It’s easily one of the most talked-about and yet, misunderstood topics when it comes to Lambda. Depending on who you talk to, you will likely get different advice on how best to reduce cold starts.

Six AWS Lambda Cost Optimization Strategies That Work

In 2021 it’s common practice for businesses to use a pay-as-you-go/use pricing model. It’s no different with Amazon. It’s also the primary reason why this article is such an important read for all those looking to reduce their AWS Lambda costs. In this article, we will go over six actionable strategies to optimize the cost relating to our AWS Lambda usage. One of the main reasons for choosing to move into the cloud is the ability to reduce costs.

OpenTelemetry Trace 1.0 is now available

For decades, application development and operations teams have struggled with the best way to generate, collect, and analyze telemetry data from systems and apps. In 2010, we discussed our approach to telemetry and tracing in the Dapper papers, which eventually spawned the open-source OpenCensus project, which merged with OpenTracing to become OpenTelemetry.

Cloud Logging in a minute

Cloud Logging is a real-time log management tool that allows you to securely store, search, analyze, and alert on all of your log data and events. In this video, we show you what Cloud Logging is and how you can use it to convert logs to log-based metrics for monitoring, alerting, analyzing and visualizing for your applications infrastructure.
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How the technology gap grew during 2020

Even before the emergence of a global pandemic that disrupted and catalysed modern workplace IT, IT professionals were under pressure. In a few years, many have learned to deliver more new technologies and advanced services than perhaps in the previous decade. Today's hybrid, distributed tech environments already pressured even senior admins to equip themselves with new skills to adapt to these changes and manage systems confidently.

Dashbird becomes Gartner Cool Vendor 2021!

We’re officially cool! Dashbird is extremely proud to be named as a Cool Vendor by Gartner in Monitoring, Observability, and Cloud Operations in their 28 April 2021 report on “Cool Vendors in Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations”. “Dashbird provides a novel approach to observability for serverless applications that run inside an AWS environment.