Traditionally in white-box monitoring, error reporting has been achieved with third party libraries, that catch and communicate failures to external services and notify developers whenever a problem occurs. I’m here to argue that for managed services this can be achieved with less effort, no agents and without performance overhead. In fact, there’s a lot of…
Load balancing is a significant part of every internet-facing software, and with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS offers a set of load balancers for every use case. Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into these ELB services; let’s look at them and see how they can be used in a serverless environment. What is Elastic…
AWS Lambda offers you a variety of benefits like real-time data processing, custom back-end service and a lot more. Wish you knew the ins-and-outs of this system so you could decide if it’s the right fit for you? With so much information available about AWS Lambda, it can be hard to know what it is…
TL;DR: Dashbird launches observability for five new AWS services (ELB, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch, and HTTP API Gateway) to allow for a faster, more secure, and smoother serverless observability experience. Dashbird, the leading monitoring platform for serverless AWS applications, announces five new AWS integrations. On top of the existing integrations supported, the company is on its…
Two buzzwords walk into a bar… No? Yeah, let’s not go there. If you feel like this, you’re in the right place. Both containers and serverless have been the cool new kid on the block for the last few years, and the popularity simply isn’t dying down. Before I continue, let me clarify. You will…
Adding an API Gateway to your application is a good way to centralize some work you usually have to do for all of your API routes, like authentication or validation. But like every software system, it comes with its own problems. Solving errors in the cloud isn’t always straightforward, and API Gateway isn’t an exception.…