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Scaling a Financial Reconciliation Pipeline With Serverless

An event-driven reconciliation pipeline on AWS ran into Lambda timeouts and DynamoDB hot partition keys when batch sizes grew. Learn how a hybrid Step Functions pattern (Lambda for small files, ECS Fargate ...

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AWS Lambda Managed Instances Offer Specialized Compute Configurations

AWS Lambda Managed Instances bring Lambda’s operational simplicity to EC2, enabling specialized compute options, cost efficiency, and predictable scaling ...

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Is AWS Lambda a Replacement For Servers?

Function-as-a-service is great for certain classes of problems, but for some types of computation, FaaS is, quite simply, a bad fit ...

Lee Atchison | October 31, 2023 | AWS Lambda, cloud native computing, FaaS, function-as-a-service, serverless, servers

Kubernetes, serverless Kubernetes backup and recovery

Overcoming the Challenges and Costs of Serverless

Since its inception in the late 1990s, the cloud has always been about reducing undifferentiated heavy lifting in IT. Services like AWS EC2 manage server hardware and give users elastic scaling to ...

Omer Hamerman | June 16, 2023 | architecture, AWS Lambda, cloud-native applications, serverless

Serverless Computing is Great, Except When it’s Not

Serverless computing is an innovative way of operating your application in the cloud. Essentially, it allows you to run an application without the need to allocate computer instances to the program. This ...

Lee Atchison | May 16, 2023 | AWS Lambda, cloud native computing, cloud-native applications, serverless

AWS TriggerMesh integration Pure Storage Portworx

Triggermesh Melds AWS Lambda with Kubernetes

IT organizations looking to move functions that were developed for the Lambda serverless computing framework from Amazon Web Services to Kubernetes clusters now can take advantage of an open source TriggerMesh Knative ...

Mike Vizard | January 30, 2019 | AWS Lambda, framework, Knative, kubernetes, serverless, TriggerMesh

Knative CNCF Serverless Framework for Kubernetes

Platform9 Extends Serverless Framework for Kubernetes

Platform9 has extended the open source Fission.io serverless computing framework it developed for Kubernetes clusters to include a range of additional capabilities intended to make the serverless framework more accessible within the ...

Mike Vizard | November 2, 2018 | AWS Lambda, kubernetes, open source, serverless

Twistlock Looks to Secure Serverless Computing

As an early pioneer in the development of a security framework optimized for containers, Twistlock has been at the forefront of securing emerging technology platforms. Now the company is extending that security ...

Mike Vizard | August 21, 2017 | AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, containers, DevSecOps, Google Cloud Functions, Jenkins World, security, serverless computing, Twistlock

Serverless Computing and Docker: What They Have in Common

Container platforms such as Docker and serverless compute services such as AWS Lambda are among the hottest trends in IT right now. What do they have to do with one another? Let’s ...

Christopher Tozzi | March 2, 2017 | aws, AWS Lambda, containers, docker, kubernetes, Lambda, serverless computing

AWS Stokes Container Management Debate

Amazon Web Services is gearing up to throw its weight around in the debate over container management and orchestration. At the re:Invent 2016 conference, AWS announced plans to create a Blox project ...