Thursday, December 13, 2018

serveless: AWS Lambda Layers & Custom Runtimes

the future of cloud development is "serverless", AWS made it clear on re:Invent 2018

New for AWS Lambda – Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components | AWS News Blog

AWS Lambda Layers - AWS Lambda

"You can configure your Lambda function to pull in additional code and content in the form of layers. A layer is a ZIP archive that contains libraries, a custom runtime, or other dependencies. With layers, you can use libraries in your function without needing to include them in your deployment package."