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Reflecting on re:Invent - The Human Side of Serverless

Another day of re:Invent is over and it’s all been amazing and overwhelming. And yes, the medals really do spin. It was a huge honor to be named an AWS Serverless Hero a few weeks ago. As I prepare for more conference talks in the upcoming months, I’m reflecting on what it means to be granted this honor despite having only written my first lines of code earlier this year.

Lumigo: AWS re:Invent Recap - Serverless Edition

The biggest serverless event of the year is just around the corner. That means we can expect the folks at AWS to announce a whole host of exciting new features and enhancements to their serverless offering. In this post-event webinar, AWS Senior Developer Advocate (Serverless) James Beswick will join AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui and Lumigo Director of Engineering Efi Medler-Kravitz to dissect and debate all the big announcements.

Rancher: RKE Under the Hood | Advanced Kubernetes Training

In this Kubernetes Master Class, Rancher Engineers Hussein Galal and Sebastiaan van Steenis will explore how RKE was designed, the internals of how RKE works, and how Rancher and RKE work together. This session is suited for anyone who wants to learn more about what happens under the hood when you either use Rancher or RKE to provision and maintain clusters.

SolarWinds Introduces N-central 12.2-Providing Users with Deeper Network Monitoring, Increased Security Measures, and Enhanced Automation Capabilities

As the IT environments grow to be more and more complex, so must the software that supports IT professionals. The new features in N-central 12.2 will meet the needs of managed services providers - deepening the company's commitment to arming technology professionals with the powerful software they need to solve today's IT management challenges.
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Speed AND Reliability: How to move fast and fix things [Webinar]

In this Raygun webinar, our host Andre and guest host Eliza get curious about what it takes for teams to ship things faster, but still keep the focus on the end user. They take a look at some internal processes that have worked for both companies, including keeping the end-user in mind, and how Agile and DevOps processes reinforce the culture of shipping excellent software.

Monitor your Arm VMs with Datadog

Acorn RISC Machine (Arm) processors were first released in 1985 to support low-power, low-cost computing. Because of their ability to deliver cost-effective performance, the next big use for Arm-based devices is in the cloud. AWS recently added a range of Arm-based EC2 instance types and is developing additional support (e.g., in Elastic Kubernetes Service). Meanwhile, Arm and Docker are working on tighter integration.

Monitor Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate with Datadog

AWS Fargate has steadily gained traction in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) environments because it allows users to run containerized applications without thinking about their underlying infrastructure. Today, AWS announced that support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS Fargate is now generally available, giving Amazon EKS users the option to seamlessly manage their infrastructure with AWS Fargate instead of manually provisioning EC2 worker nodes.

Monitor AWS Lambda Provisioned Concurrency metrics with Datadog

Serverless computing continues to be a growing trend, with AWS Lambda as a main driver of adoption. Today, AWS released Provisioned Concurrency, a new feature that makes AWS Lambda more resilient to cold starts during bursts of network traffic. If you’re running a consumer-facing application, slow page loads and request timeouts can degrade the user experience and lead to significant revenue loss.