In this next blog post of the MicroServerlessLamba.NET series, we will review how we managed to make microservices calls in a more resilient way. As previously covered, hosting via functions as a service is not a silver bullet and it has its own set of challenges. AWS Lambda is not an exception to this. Functions …
MicroServerlessLamba.NET Series – API Call Resilience Read More »
Polly is a powerful fault handling library which can help make your service calls more resilient to failure. Polly makes it very easy to define policies for service call retries, timeouts, circuit breaking and fallbacks that configure against your service client in a fluent way. We use Polly in our serverless microservice architecture extensively to …
After my last blog post about the extended cold start times with AWS Lambdas inside a private VPC, we needed to find a way to minimize the effect of this in our serverless application. Are you sure? The first consideration before adding a warmer is to ensure it’s actually needed. If the Lambda doesn’t require …
We started hitting a 30 second timeout on some Lambdas last week but everything was running much faster when debugging locally. So I dug into the XRay logs to learn more and found two execution delays (red boxes below). The first is the Lambda cold start setup. So this delay was only being hit after …
Delays in AWS Lambda (in VPC) with ASP.NET Core 2.1 Read More »
It’s finally here! The .NET Team at Microsoft released .NET Core 2.0 last week (August 14, 2017) along with .NET Standard 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0. This release is provided 10 months after the release of .NET Core 1.1. Here is a simplified timeline of the major releases for .NET Core. …