Cicada is an application that is both a full example of building a real application using Serverless techniques on AWS, and also a practical monitoring tool for GitHub. This article introduces Cicada, and Cicada Notes.
I was recently a guest on the ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast to give my thoughts about the state of Serverless today. We covered a lot, but the main conversation points to me were:
The second of two articles about AWS Lambda SnapStart, this looks at how developers can update their existing Java Lambda applications to use SnapStart, and what performance improvements they might expect to see.
At reInvent 2022 AWS announced “SnapStart” - a new Lambda capability to drastically improve cold starts when using Lambda with Java, or other JVM languages.
AWS Lambda is my preferred runtime environment for cloud-based code. Lambda has gained many, many, features over the eight years since it was launched. Most of these are focussed on the Lambda runtime - more CPUs, more memory, different CPU architectures, many more language runtimes, custom runtimes, integration with approximately a bajillion other services, etc.
