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By nature, serverless applications are highly-distributed and event-driven, relying heavily on relaying events from one service to another. With that in mind, selecting the right messaging service for routing events is critical for your serverless application's functionality and performance.

AWS Step Functions are an emerging solution in the field of serverless architectures, as they provide capabilities to coordinate between many services. This webinar takes the "Right to be forgotten" (GDPR) workflow as an example of a hands-on AWS Step Functions tutorial: use-cases, difficulties, and solutions. Combining Cloudway's experience with Lumigo's monitoring and debugging solution, we provide a full framework to manage multiple subsystems into a single serverless flow and get the work done.

The software we write does not always work as smoothly as we'd like. To know if something went wrong, find the root cause, and fix the problem, we need to monitor our system and get alerts whenever issues pop up. There are many useful tools and practices for non-serverless applications. As we adopt serverless architecture can we continue to use the same approach? Unfortunately, the answer is no.

When a Lambda function times out, it’s one of the trickier problems to debug, especially if the function performs multiple IO calls. What was it doing when it timed out? And how do I identify these timeout errors quickly when Lambda lumps them together with other unhandled exceptions? In this webinar, we will show you how to identify and debug timeout errors, and strategies for mitigating timeouts and degraded performance more gracefully when there are underlying issues.

One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, or Stripe. In this webinar, we will show you how to quickly identify and debug these problems, and some best practices for dealing with poor performing 3rd party services. Here are some of the topics we cover.

AWS has improved Lambda cold starts by leaps and bounds in the last year. But for performance-sensitive applications such as user-facing APIs, Lambda cold starts are still a thorn in one’s side, especially when working with languages such as Java and .Net Core. In this webinar, we will dive into strategies for improving cold start latency and how to mitigate them all together with Provisioned Concurrency, and how Lumigo helps you optimize your use of Provisioned Concurrency.

In this follow-along workshop, you will learn how to add observability to a serverless application and troubleshoot problems such as Lambda timeouts, slow response time, cold starts, and debug errors in the business logic. Some of the activities you can follow along in the workshop include.

One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures, and specifically, AWS Lambda, is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, or Stripe. In this webinar, we will focus on how to monitor, detect, and fix latency issues that arise when our Lambda functions need to talk to other services. Some of the topics we will cover include:

In this webinar, Yan Cui and Olaf Conijn will take a deep dive into AWS Organizations, what it is, and why you should use it. They review how to use the open-source tool org-formation to manage an entire AWS Organization using infrastructure-as-code.