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How Making Cost a Non-Functional Requirement Helps the CloudZero Engineering Team Build Better Architecture

CloudZero

I can spin up a fleet of instances, a NoSQL database capable of millions of transactions per second, or even a flock of lambdas with instant scaling, as I please. As a result, today, I have the keys to the kingdom when it comes to making purchasing decisions.

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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

TechCrunch

For Alchemy, the acquisition seems like a fit considering the company’s goal is to be the starting point for developers looking to build apps on the blockchain. It’s often referred to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of web3 and says it has seen a 10x increase in the number of teams building on its platform over the past 12 months.

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Announcing Stackery-Native Provisioned Concurrency Support

Stackery

Any time AWS Lambdas needed to scale up, the first invocation of each service instance took longer to handle its request than those that followed. Sending ‘warm up’ requests to your Lambda before big traffic spikes. Giving more resources to Lambdas. Re-engineering your Lambdas to start up faster (e.g.

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On Building a Platform Team

Honeycomb

There’s a whole class of things you just don’t have to think about if, say, your system is running on lambdas. Vendors vs. internal platform teams. What’s the difference between a good vendor and a good internal team building you those abstractions?

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Netlify Changelog October 2020

Netlify

Visibility into build status. Additional status indicators for builds that are in your queue. On the team Build page in the UI, see build minutes used last billing period. Creating an API with AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. Check it out. Billing transparency. Articles We Think You’ll Love.

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The Future of Ops Careers

Honeycomb

Have you seen Lambda: A Serverless Musical ? We already know from industry research that the key to success when outsourcing is to embed those off-prem contributions within cross-functional teams, which manage integrating that work back into the broader organization. If not, you really have to. That work isn’t going away.

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Five Ways Serverless Changes DevOps

Stacks on Stacks

Infrastructure Management = Configuration Management The serverless approach focuses on leveraging the cloud provider do more of the undifferentiated heavy lifting of scaling the IT infrastructure, freeing your team to maintain laser focus on the unique problems which your organization solves. However, here’s another big shift.