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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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