What is lambda? You may know that it’s the eleventh letter in the Greek alphabet. Perhaps you recall from Physics that it’s the symbol used to represent wavelength in calculations, or you might have ...

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda functions, or what I would be just as happy to call anonymous functions. Some people make a big deal out of these but the core idea is very ...

Mention AWS, and most people think of EC2 and infrastructure as a service. Although Amazon has steadily added platform features to AWS, including storage, databases, and mobile services, no matter ...

Build flexible Excel functions that automatically handle blanks, defaults, and overrides without messy nested IFs.

This comprehensive guide covers what serverless computing is and how it could reduce the complexity and cost of your cloud infrastructure. The world’s major cloud providers are rushing to offer ...

At its re:Invent kickoff keynote tonight, AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Typically, when a ...