The original pitch for cloud computing is the ability to scale computing power to the needs and growth of your organization–without provisioning the physical hardware in advance, or dealing with the ...

Serverless computing offers the opportunity to build and run web, Internet of Things and mobile applications without virtual or physical servers at a significantly reduced overhead cost. What’s not to ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

When Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Lambda 10 years ago, it was a bold experiment that would go on to reshape the cloud computing landscape. Serverless computing, a term that scarcely existed ...

DynamoDB is a NoSQL document store that is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). DynamoDB defines data abstractions as tables, which accept common database operations such as insert, retrieve, query, ...

If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t built an AWS Lambda function before, you’ll be amazed by how easy it is to get your first serverless application up and running. To build your first Java AWS ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...

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, ...

AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless platform, now features support for functions written in Go, the increasingly popular programming language that was originally developed at Google. This announcement ...