Posts by Erez Berkner

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

Erez Berkner Jan 09 2024
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...
Erez Berkner Dec 20 2023
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...
Erez Berkner Dec 19 2023
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...
Erez Berkner Dec 13 2023
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)...
Erez Berkner Dec 06 2022
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...
Erez Berkner Dec 01 2022
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....
Erez Berkner Nov 08 2022
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...
Erez Berkner Jun 02 2022
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...
Erez Berkner Apr 13 2022
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...
Erez Berkner Nov 02 2021
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...
Erez Berkner Oct 04 2021
September Round Up
Here's a quick roundup of the newest product features, resources, and events from Lumigo. From issue to the line in...
Erez Berkner Aug 25 2021
August Monthly Roundup
Here is a quick round up of the newest product features, resources, and events! Troubleshoot faster by correlating deployment changes...
Erez Berkner Jun 09 2021
Understanding Serverless Observability
What is Serverless Observability? Ideally, observability should help you understand the state of your application and how it performs under...
Erez Berkner Feb 20 2021
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...
Erez Berkner Dec 04 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Nov 30 2020
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,...
Erez Berkner Jun 25 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Apr 28 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Mar 17 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Mar 10 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Mar 03 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Feb 27 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Feb 18 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Feb 13 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Feb 04 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Jan 28 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Jan 21 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Jan 14 2020
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...
Erez Berkner Nov 13 2019
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,...
Erez Berkner Oct 31 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Oct 02 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Oct 01 2019
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. ...
Erez Berkner Sep 24 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Sep 16 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Jul 11 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Jun 24 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Jun 12 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Jun 05 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Jun 03 2019
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...
Erez Berkner May 09 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Apr 25 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Apr 11 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Mar 12 2019
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...
Erez Berkner Aug 12 2018
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....
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