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Dashbird is the company blog at dashbird.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 1)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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29mentions?
10HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dashbird's serverless posts on AWS Lambda memory settings and cost comparisons with EC2. The comments only quote or cite them and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

See into your serverless applications at any scale With end-to-end visibility across your cloud infrastructure, you can respond to issues quickly and always stay ahead quality and performance problems. Dashbird is purpose built for serverless and comes equipped with hundreds of alarms, insights and

Most-linked posts?

  1. Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 1)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Memory and computing power Memory is the principal lever available to Lambda developers for controlling the performance of a function. You can configure the amount of memory allocated to a Lambda function, between 128 MB and 10,240 MB. The Lambda console defaults new functions to the smallest setting and many developers also choose 128 MB for their functions. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/operatorguide/c…

    Comment linking /knowledge-base/aws-lambda/resource-allocation-and-performance/

    on “Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Monolith, saves 90%”
  2. Submitted The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners as a story · 137 points

    HN discussion
  3. Comparing AWS EC2 pricing [1] and AWS Lambda [2]. Assumption: Let's say you run an application / function with 5 qps traffic, needing 256 MB RAM max, 50ms execution time. EC2: t2.micro instance - 1 instance available as always free, hence using as a baseline. This comes with 1 vCPU and 1GiB RAM - cost $0.0116 / hour x 750 hours a month = $8.7 / month. Lambda: For 5 qps traffic, it would amount to 13,392,000 requests…

    Comment linking /lambda-cost-calculator/

    on “Ask HN: When does serverless become more expensive than microservices?”
  4. Submitted Dashbird.io – debug, analyse and monitor your lambda functions as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why AWS Console isn’t the best for serverless debugging? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Guide to AWS Step Functions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 1) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted When to Use Docker on AWS Lambda, Lambda Layers, and Lambda Extensions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Of recycling third-party code for AWS Lambda as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Best Practices for Logging in AWS Lambda as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 1) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 3) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Popular Use Cases for Going Serverless as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Crash Course: AWS CDK and Serverless with REST API+Data Lake Analytical Querying as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to Optimize AWS Lambda Costs (With Examples) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Fundamentally Change the Way You Look at Serverless Observability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Stonks Robinhood for Reddit API – Build API Gateway – Lambda as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Debugging the “Lambda Configuration Error” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Improving on AWS CloudWatch Alerts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The Guide to AWS DynamoDB as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Building Battle-Tested Well-Architected Serverless Apps:Learnings from Real Life as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 2) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Architectural Pattern for Highly Scalable Serverless APIs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How to Save Hundreds of Hours on Lambda Debugging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Exploring AWS Lambda Deployment Limits as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Complete Guide to Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns (Part 1) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The great serverless cost debate (Serverless = Costless) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted First 6 months of a Serverless monitoring startup as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Monitor and track errors in AWS Lambda as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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