How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
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This article details how Smartsheet optimized its serverless architecture to reduce latency and improve cost-efficiency using AWS technologies.
- Implemented serverless event processing using Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
- Reduced P95 latency by 83% using provisioned concurrency
- Adopted dynamic auto-scaling of provisioned concurrency based on traffic patterns
- Switched to AWS Graviton architecture, saving 20% on Lambda function costs
- Used different auto-scaling thresholds for interactive and asynchronous functions
Key optimization techniques included fine-tuning Lambda functions, using Graviton2, and implementing provisioned concurrency with auto-scaling to match dynamic workloads.
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