Monitoring a Serverless microservice with AWS X-Ray

Monitoring a Serverless microservice with AWS X-Ray

As you have probably noticed, monitoring, debugging and getting latency data for your microservices can be painful if they interact with multiple distributed services. For...
As you have probably noticed, monitoring, debugging and getting latency data for your microservices can be painful if they interact with multiple distributed services. For these types of microservices, you are usually forced to build your own performance testing application, add an inordinate amount of log statements, or simply crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. From one of AWS’s posts on the subject: “Traditional debugging methods don’t work so well for microservice based applications, in which there are multiple, independent components running on different services.” — AWS Lambda Support For AWS X-Ray As a result, AWS AWS X-Ray which,...
AWS Lambdas with a static outgoing IP

AWS Lambdas with a static outgoing IP

By Ivonne Roberts Take a spin around the technical universe, and you will see that serverless computing is all the rage these days. Serverless computing doesn’t...
By Ivonne Roberts Take a spin around the technical universe, and you will see that serverless computing is all the rage these days. Serverless computing doesn’t mean that there are no servers running your code. In the most popular use of the word, it simply means that you, the developer, don’t have to worry about it. Someone else has, and will monitor your service and make sure you have the right infrastructure and scalability in place. Public Cloud providers like AWS and Google are simplifying the process for developers to leverage this architectural design concept. Do a quick search on the...