Monitoring serverless applications with AWS CloudWatch alarms

By Dustin Ward

Running any application in production assumes reliable monitoring to be in place and serverless applications are no exception. As modern cloud applications get more and more distributed and complex, the challenge of monitoring availability, performance, and cost get increasingly difficult. Unfortunately, there isn’t much offered right out of the box from cloud providers. Although you can’t fully…

I built a crypto monitoring app with serverless – this is how

By Dustin Ward

In this article, I will explain how I built COINDATAX, a cryptocurrency analytics platform to help investors analyze the market, and explain why we choose to go serverless. I will also explain our biggest pain points with AWS Lambda, and how Dashbird helped us with Lambda performance monitoring. Why serverless? When my co-founder and I decided…

Advancing your financial services strategy with Azure sustainability

By Dustin Ward

Many CEOs and senior business leaders have used the COVID-19 and economic crisis as an opportunity to focus on redesigning their business. Like others, they’ve felt compelled to re-examine their business and operational models, driven by the internal necessity for digital transformation, as well as external consumer and regulatory pressures to advance sustainability efforts. Across…