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There has been a rapid rise in serverless computing, and with it, demand for skilled professionals who can make it work for their enterprises. Architecture is destiny, so the ability to design and ...

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Kevin Macwan is a Software Development Manager for Amazon, with 9+ years of experience in building distributed cloud platform services. Serverless architecture is no longer the future of computing—it ...

For a long time, vector databases were a bit of a niche product, but because they are uniquely suited to provide context and long-term memory to large language models, everybody in the database space ...

Composable architectures have been the holy grail of distributed computing since the very beginning of networking. The ideal is to have each resource on the network do what it does best, and ...

The two most mentioned advantages of cloud-based platforms are pay-per-use billing and the ability to scale up to an almost unlimited number of resources. No more buying ahead of resource demand, ...

As opposed to more traditional server models, in serverless computing/architectures you pay for compute time used as well as potentially read/write requests to cloud provider integrated services.

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...