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 ...

What happens to Amazon's $10bn revenues from pay-as-you-go servers if serverless app dev takes hold? With Lambda, AWS bets it can win either way There's an old adage in the technology industry that ...

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 ...

Most companies today develop applications and deploy them on servers — whether on-premises or in the cloud. That means figuring out how much server, storage and database power they need ahead of time, ...

The recent evolution of .NET has been fun to watch. Since .NET became an open-source platform, it has finally delivered on its cross-platform promise. At the same time, support for Linux has given it ...

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, ...

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Brian Armstrong (left), co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, welcomes Tim Wagner, formerly head of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda team, to Coinbase. (Coinbase Photo) Thanks to its early start, Amazon Web ...