This July, the community spirit was profoundly vibrant in the scenic city of Munich, as Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) Munich brought together a meeting of minds and inspired the open-source collaboration we all know and love. The event was a testament to the strength and vitality of the Kubernetes community, which pulsed with an energy of shared intellectual curiosity and passion for all things Kubernetes.

AJ Stuyvenberg is a Staff Engineer at Datadog and an AWS Serverless Hero. A version of this post was originally published on his blog. In AWS Lambda, a cold start occurs when a function is invoked and an idle, initialized sandbox is not ready to receive the request. Features like Provisioned Concurrency and SnapStart are designed to reduce cold starts by pre-initializing execution environments.

This is the second blog in our deep dive series on serverless architectures. In the first installment, we explored the benefits and trade-offs of microservices and serverless architectures, highlighting the case of Amazon Prime Video's architectural redesign for cost optimization.

Organizations increasingly leverage Azure to host their applications and services in today’s cloud-driven world. However, efficiently managing Azure resources ensures optimal performance, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. One essential aspect of resource management is rightsizing. In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of rightsizing Azure resources and provide practical tips on optimizing your deployments.

At Lumigo, we see ourselves as your reliable ally in the noble mission of detecting and vanquishing troublesome issues that lurk within your serverless and container applications. Our secret sauce? Equipping you with a wealth of detailed trace data, ensuring you’re always well-lit and ready for battle when the nefarious ‘bugs’ make their unsolicited appearances.

Azure Function is an event-driven serverless computing service on Microsoft Azure. It is a cost-effective solution with less code where the user can execute their logic as event-driven, readily available blocks of code without needing infrastructure.

Serverless computing, also known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), has taken the world of cloud computing by storm. A game-changer in its own right, serverless computing has completely transformed the way developers approach and design their applications by abstracting the underlying infrastructure layer. But what makes it a powerful paradigm shift?

As organizations embrace cloud computing, understanding, and optimizing costs becomes essential. Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, offers various services and features to help you manage your cloud expenses effectively. One powerful technique to achieve this is by performing Azure unit cost analysis. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of unit cost analysis and provide a step-by-step guide on performing it in Azure.

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we selected a problem related to a few tips and tricks I have been writing Message validation inside Logic Apps or JSON schema validation. One of our previous dilemmas addressed this complex topic: Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: How to validate if a JSON property is not an empty string? , of course, describing and addressing a different problem.

Health checks are an important factor when working with containerized applications in the cloud and are the source of truth for many applications in terms of their running status. In the context of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), health checks are a periodic probe to assess the functioning of containers. In this blog, we will explore how Lumigo, a troubleshooting platform built for microservices, can help provide insights into container crashes and failed health checks.