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Monitoring Serverless Architectures
Serverless architectures are attracting more and more interest from the IT professionals and companies hoping to lower the costs of creating and operating distributed systems without constant worrying about availability, scalability and capacity management. Despite all the attractive properties that serverless architectures offer, such systems still need to be comprehensively monitored to be effectively operated and maintain the expected quality of service and SLAs.
In this talk, I will provide the overview of monitoring capabilities required by system built on the Serverless stack, discuss various AWS services that can be used to deliver such capabilities. I will cover everything from metering and logging to tracing, auditing and alerting.
Additionally, I will share some top tips on how to monitor and optimise the spend on the cloud infrastructure as well as control and adjust provisioned capacity for the resources that use provisioned capacity model, like DynamoDB and Kinesis.
Lastly, I will also offer some suggestions on how to supplement provider’s own solutions with bespoke extensions, built using the Serverless stack, to provide even more comprehensive monitoring.
Speaker
Rafal Gancarz
Lead Consultant @OpenCredo
Rafal is a Lead Consultant for OpenCredo, a London-based consultancy specialising in helping clients build and deploy emerging technologies to deliver business value. He is an experienced technologist with expertise in architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems. Rafal is also an...
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Location
Whittle, 3rd flr.
Track
Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
Topics
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