Boosting our Database Performance with AWS Lambda (a LOT of Lambda)

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An article about this talk on InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/honeycomb-serverless/

This talk on video, from its debut at StrangeLoop

Honeycomb blog posts about this work:

• The CONCURRENCY operator we created in order to study our lambda behavior: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-concurrency
• Investigating the cost of our lambda usage: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/aws-costs-service-level
• About our implementation of lambda to speed up our queries: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/secondary-storage-to-just-storage
• Various other speedups: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/speeding-things-up-so-your-queries-can-bee-faster

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