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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

How does High-Performance Computing on AWS differ from regular computing? For this HPC will bring massive parallel computing, cluster and workload managers and high-performance components to the table. Jobs can be artefacts such as Docker container images, shell scripts or regular Linux executables. No ageing infrastructure.

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AWS Lambda Versioning and Aliases

Linux Academy

As I detailed in a previous blog post, I’m continuing to update the Linux Academy AWS DevOps Pro certification course. The course has three new sections (and Lambda Versioning and Aliases plays an important part in the Lambda section): Deployment Pipelines. AWS Lambda, and. AWS Lambda and Serverless Concepts.

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Scheduling Amazon DynamoDB Backups with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

Linux Academy

A simple way to achieve this is to use an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to trigger an AWS Lambda function daily. In this hands-on AWS lab, you will write a Lambda function in Python using the Boto3 library. Setting this up requires configuring an IAM role, setting a CloudWatch rule, and creating a Lambda function. every 1 day).

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What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Learning Lambda — Part 8

Mike Roberts

Cold Starts This is Part 8 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. In this installment of Learning Lambda I discuss Cold Starts. In this installment of Learning Lambda I discuss Cold Starts. Way back in Part 3 I talked about the lifecycle of a Lambda function.

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Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python

Honeycomb

We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read , we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging Lambda to process more data in less time. For this project, that meant getting instrumentation out of Lambda and into Honeycomb. The instrumentation performance tax.

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Learning Lambda — Part 9

Mike Roberts

Scaling and State This is Part 9 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. So far in this series we’ve only been talking about processing a small number of events with Lambda, one after the other. Finally I mention Lambda’s limited, but not trivial, vertical scaling capability.

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