Microservices and Serverless: Winning Strategies and Challenges

By Dustin Ward

The concept of a microservice perfectly fits the structure of a serverless function, which easily enables deployment and runtime isolation for different services. On the storage side, services such as DynamoDB also make it easier to have independent databases for each microservice and scale them independently (when required or desirable). Before we dive into details, please consider whether the benefits…

AWS Step Functions Use Cases

By Dustin Ward

As you probably already know, Step Functions is a serverless Workflow Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There’s a lot to discuss about this service, and you’ll find plenty of vital information in our AWS Step Functions: The Ultimate Guide as well as in our series of articles that’ll dive deep into various aspects regarding this…

Operational Excellence for Large Scale Serverless Applications

By Dustin Ward

Original article here: https://dashbird.io/blog/operational-excellence-serverless-application/ Managing applications at scale often comes up as one of the biggest concerns for businesses; How can it work smoothly? How do we monitor so many resources? How do we maintain best practices with constantly evolving infrastructure? In this article, we run through the best approach for operational excellence looking at serverless monitoring strategy, serverless alerting…

Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNetwork Load Balancer now supports IPv6 Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections.

Cloud Native Application Monitoring for AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCloud Native Application Monitoring for AWS This blog post will show you how DXC used AWS management tools and services to create a custom cloud native application monitoring framework. DXC made this advanced monitoring offering available to their customers, which resulted in improved customer satisfaction. The business driver DXC has a robust…