Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...

One of the recurrent, valid criticisms of Java as a programming language is that it is wordy. You have to write a lot of code to get anything done. Lambda expressions relieve that problem for some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana today announced the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go, ...

In the good old days, coders asking how to do X in C were told "this is how you do it." Now we say "wouldn't it be nice if we could," with a realistic chance of having it happen. As Java coders, we ...

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AWS this week unveiled a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, which is designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, ...