Serverless [Cron]icle - #49 - scaling serverless

The new Serverless Platform Beta: everything teams need to operationalize serverless development

Including the brand new Serverless Dashboard for logging & monitoring

Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms

Forewarning that this is an academic paper. But it's a pretty cool one. Several good insights, including:

On AWS, all underlying VMs are tenant-specific. Your functions will never be co-located with someone else's functions.
On AWS, there's little if any cold start hit from putting a function on a 'new' VM. AWS must be pre-warming VMs for you as your existing VMs fill up.
On AWS, they found noticeable performance degradation from co-location / noisy neighbors.
On Google, they were able to run a background script after the function invocation ended. They weren't billed for this, and one time had it keep running for 21 hours!

ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco: key takeaways for the future of serverless

Miss ServerlessConf this week? That's ok. Read up on what went down. Key themes include: security, serverless at scale, #DiffOps, and non-developer development.