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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

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Launched at last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS Lambda is a unique service from Amazon. It enables developers to write short code snippets that run in response to various events generated by AWS ...