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Six people on the cutting edge of serverless modernization

Stackery

The Athena query federation system seems to be made by people in the "fat Lambda" camp. Federation is accomplish by one Lambda that can respond to different types of requests. It'd be nice if maybe a specially-constructed SAR app could allow for separate functions — Ben Kehoe (@ben11kehoe) January 4, 2020.

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Serverless: A simple overview

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While AWS Lambda is viewed as the specific technology that kicked off the movement, other vendors offer platforms for reducing operational overhead. AWS Lambda is the canonical example and can be invoked from applications directly or triggered by other AWS services. Different flavors of serverless. Serverless for APIs.

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Going Native: Trying Out AOT For Spring Boot

Apiumhub

As mentioned above, the cold start of the program means that several seconds will elapse before the web application will be able to respond to the first request, something that precludes this type of program from use in an environment where fast responses are required for sporadic requests, e.g. in an AWS lambda-based microservices application.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

PaulDJohnston : Lambda done badly is still better than Kubernetes done well. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.

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An Informal Ramble

The Programmer's Paradox

For the first time, our species has manager to instantiate one of our previously abstract-only formal systems -- Turing machines and/or lambda calculus -- into a physical reality. Well almost, since computers are still bound by finite resources and by the occasional hardware failure. Nothing that would even be constructed deliberately.

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A virtual art museum for NFTs is still under construction, but it exists, and you can visit it. It doesn’t sound like it should work, but playing games with the error correction built into the standard allows the construction of animated QR codes. A startup called Ontology claims to have solved it. QR codes are awful.

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Containers: Fueling Your Move to DevSecOps

Palo Alto Networks

This represents a complete abstraction of compute whereby the consumer is hardware- and OS-agnostic. The two most recognizable implementations of FaaS are Google’s Cloud Functions and AWS’s Lambda. Think in terms of physical construction. Figure 2: Container Security Triad. . Build security.

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