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What is it about? You are already up and running with AWS Lambda for several months, and all of a sudden you get the following error: An error occurred: TestDashdeliveryLa...
Just a week after announcing the general availability of our automated instrumentation for Go, we are thrilled to announce today that our Java automated instrumentation librar...
Serverless architecture is the new kid on the block, and according to a recent survey by Serverless, Inc., a vast majority of developers will start using it by the end of the ...
AWS has officially released today, at re:Invent 2018, the support for Layers in Lambda functions. Epsagon is proud to partner with AWS as an official partner of AWS Lambda ...
After many requests, we are excited to officially release today our instrumentation library for the Go programming language. The library is available on our GitHub repository....
Epsagon is a serverless application monitoring company, with its entire technology stack built on AWS Lambda. As a serverless native company, Epsagon is dedicated to helping c...
The popular Serverless Framework is built to deploy only files inside the directory in which the serverless.yml file is contained. This limitation is probably by ...
The primary problem most developers report with using serverless in production is observability. When things start performing poorly or behaving badly, red teams are left digg...
We had a unique webinar last week - "More than Functions", a discussion about the future of serverless and observability. We were lucky to have the best minds in serverless wi...
Now that AWS Lambda has added PowerShell to its growing list of supported languages, let’s take a moment to compare and contrast the different languages available to us. ...
Our live demo environment is up and running! After many requests, we’ve decided to open today the live demo environment of Epsagon. It is easily accessible via this lin...
I'm incredibly excited to announce that Epsagon has officially launched today its observability and cost monitoring platform for serverless applications. It is available on th...
We are excited to announce that Epsagon is now an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. This status is the advanced tier of the APN (AWS Partner Network). Epsagon achieved this st...
When talking about serverless, two advantages immediately pop up: Scaling out of the box - Probably the best thing we can think of as developers. Don’t manage infras...
Serverless adoption has been steadily picking up throughout 2017 and 2018 as more and more people have come to rely on serverless technologies for critical production systems....
When starting to write software in serverless and Function-as-a-Service, the default cloud vendor’s console is the starting point. However, once the application gains some c...
One of the most important configurations for a Lambda function is the timeout value. It dictates how long a function invocation can last before it’s forcibly terminated by t...
Announced during re:Invent 2016, AWS Step Functions is the spiritual descendant of the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow (SWF) service. It addresses many of its predeces...
AWS Lambda pricing is promising - you don't pay for idle, and you are billed for 100 milliseconds intervals. The pricing model is described thoroughly in this page, but hones...
In this post, I'm covering five approaches for gaining observability in serverless (FaaS based) systems. I hope that it can help developers, system architects, and DevOps engi...
AWS recently introduced the SQS integration with Lambda. We have been waiting for this for a long time now. In the following post, I'm going to share a quick-and-simple t...
In this post you will understand: How AWS Lambda errors and retries work, and what's the idea behind it. What consequences it has on your code. How to build your sy...
Serverless development is simply the best. Double click, upload your code and you are done, right? Most people are more than happy to leave it at that. If you are not most peo...
This article is the first part of a two-piece series. The next part is right here! AWS Lambda is an excellent environment for rapid and scalable development. As a develope...
As a developer, I find it very convenient to develop and deploy Lambda functions. My favorite programming language is Python, so both Serverless and Zappa are great. ...
In this post, I will explain how we utilize serverless Slack bots in Epsagon, demonstrate their value, and provide an example — including corresponding open source code, usi...
Configuring a Lambda function is considered a very complex task. Among all parameters, you will have to pick the memory size for your function, which is very confusing. ...
Most developers agree that AWS Lambda is a great service. It’s cheap and easy to start with. It’s scalable. And most importantly — it just works. But there are challe...