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Mischa Spiegelmock
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AWS Lambda Deep Dive

A brief history lesson about serving web applications, followed by an in-depth look at Functions as a Service on AWS using Lambda.
• Lambda REST API
• How functions are created and invoked
• Connecting to HTTP events with API Gateway
• Limitations
• Custom runtimes
• How layers work

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