Posts by Erez Berkner

Erez Berkner is the CEO and co-founder of Lumigo, a serverless monitoring and troubleshooting platform.

Lumigo Introduces AI to Simplify Observability Workflows
Lumigo is expanding its troubleshooting and observability platform with cutting-edge AI-powered tooling, now available in beta, which will provide developers...
Choosing the Right Observability Tools for Developers
This is the third and final blog post in a series about shifting Observability left. If you have not yet...
The Power of Distributed Tracing in Shifting Observability Left
This is the second post in a 3-part series about shifting Observability left. If you have not had a chance...
Shifting Observability Left - Empowering Developers
This is the first post in a 3-part series about shifting Observability left.  When it comes to the reliability and...
Lumigo Releases 1-Click OpenTelemetry for Microservices Troubleshooting
Lumigo is excited to announce its microservice troubleshooting platform now provides developers and DevOps with the power of OpenTelemetry (OTel)...
Serverless roundup at AWS re:Invent 2022
AWS re:Invent was back and BIG last week in Las Vegas. Approximately 50,000 AWS customers and partners got together in...
Production testing: smoke tests with Cypress, CircleCI, and AWS
“Testing your production environment” refers to the practice of running tests on production servers, using actual data from real users....
Create AWS Cloudwatch metric alerts with Lumigo
Amazon CloudWatch monitors metrics of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources in real time and can trigger alarms when a...
Lumigo Receives Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation Leadership Award
Since our founding, Lumigo has worked hard to build innovative technology that meets our customers' real-world needs in a cloud-first...
Build a Cypress tests infrastructure for serverless applications
Scalable testing infrastructure When a startup is in its very early stages, rapid iteration and dynamism are at the top...
We raised $29 million in new funding. Here's what we're going to do with it
Today we are announcing an additional $29 million in funding to help Lumigo grow and provide the same powerful observability...
September Round Up
Here's a quick roundup of the newest product features, resources, and events from Lumigo. From issue to the line in...
August Monthly Roundup
Here is a quick round up of the newest product features, resources, and events! Troubleshoot faster by correlating deployment changes...
Understanding Serverless Observability
What is Serverless Observability? Ideally, observability should help you understand the state of your application and how it performs under...
Making CI/CD work with serverless
“Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation...
Managing Serverless Flows with AWS Step Functions
This blog post was written jointly by the teams at Lumigo and Cloudway. It's a step-by-step guide to AWS Step...
How to Optimize AWS Lambda Costs
This post was written by Prashanth HN, CTO & co-founder of Antstack.io, a Lumigo partner company. Antstack is a born-in-the-cloud,...
Hooray, We're Cool! At least according to Gartner :)
We’re thrilled to announce that Gartner has named Lumigo a cool vendor in its recent Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis...
Lumigo achieves AWS Lambda Ready designation
We’re excited to announce that Lumigo achieved the coveted AWS Lambda Ready designation as a serverless-first observability platform. Over the...
Serverless CI/CD: How we added a staging step
Unit tests and integration tests are vitally important, but sometimes even those aren’t sufficient to ensure that critical services in...
10 Essential Serverless Framework Plugins
To round out our series on the serverless open source community, Itay Herskovits, CTO of Funzing.com -  a community marketplace...
ABL in focus #8: Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility
Next in our series on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Lumigo Director of Engineering - and newly-minted Serverless Hero - Efi...
Lumigo’s new Serverless Hero
I’m thrilled to share that our very own Efi Merdler-Kravitz, Lumigo director of engineering, has been named a Serverless Hero...
Essential Open Source Serverless Code Libraries
Serverless applications, due to their distributed nature, are often stuck having to reinvent the wheel.  While small utility scripts and...
Amazon Builders' Library in focus #7: Going faster with continuous delivery
Next in our series on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Mike Roberts of Symphonia picks out the key insights from the...
Essential Open Source Serverless Tools
The infrastructure that runs your applications can be nearly as complex as the applications it supports.  This complexity generally scales...
Serverless Cost Optimization: Kinesis Streams vs Firehose
Lumigo senior engineer Uri Parush shares how the Lumigo R&D team balances functionality and cost considerations when making serverless architecture...
7 Tips for Rock-Solid Serverless CICD
Lumigo CEO Erez Berkner shares the seven guiding principles that shaped his development team’s serverless CICD pipeline. The DevOps infinity...
Lumigo announces ISO 27001 & 27799 certification
Lumigo is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 27001 and ISO 27799 (HIPAA compliance) certification. The certifications require the company to undergo...
Migrating from IOpipe to Lumigo
You’ve no doubt heard that IOpipe has been acquired by New Relic (congratulations to both). As part of the acquisition,...
An Introduction to AWS CDK
Note: this blog post was updated on May 22, 2023.  In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit...
5 Tips for using AWS Serverless Application Model
AWS introduced the Serverless Application Model (SAM) to ease the building of serverless applications on AWS. Essentially, it is an...
Lumigo Achieves AWS DevOps Competency Status
Lumigo, the serverless monitoring and troubleshooting platform, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. ...
8 ways to speed up serverless development
There is a paradox at the heart of serverless. While it’s promoted as a very agile way to develop, a...
AWS Lambda vs EC2: Compared on Performance, Cost, Security, and More
AWS Lambda has gained good traction for building applications on AWS. But, is it really the best fit for all...
Development workflow for serverless applications
Serverless applications require a whole new approach to development workflow. In this article, Lumigo Director of Engineering Efi Merdler-Kravitz details...
Tackling API Gateway Lambda performance issues
API Gateway is a powerful tool for creating a coherent API out of a set of multiple disconnected remote function...
Lumigo adds monitoring support for AWS Chalice
We’re pleased to announce that the Lumigo serverless intelligence platform now supports the Python microframework, AWS Chalice. Chalice was created...
Are you ready for serverless development?
The way we build software products changes all the time. Serverless architecture opens up new opportunities to create awesome products...
Lumigo adds Java Tracing support for AWS Lambda
We’re very pleased to announce the official launch of our new Java tracer for AWS Lambda. This release extends Lumigo’s...
Serverless integration testing
In this bite-sized tutorial, we look at how to add Cognito to your integration tests flow, making for true black-box...
Serverless from the trenches 1: Protect your stack from deletion
It’s time to talk about the everyday challenges of serverless. Whenever I scroll through the latest blog posts on serverless...
Takeaways from Serverless Architecture Conference NL 2019
Lumigo VP Product Avishai Shafir rounds up the most interesting talking points from the three-day Serverless Architecture Conference, held in...
Web frameworks implication for serverless cold starts
TL;DR Web application frameworks with all of their benefits add their own set of problems to FaaS environments. They introduce...
Takeaways from the ServerlessConf SF 2018
Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF. This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550 attendees....