Category: Database, Data, Infrastructure

Serverless” has been the buzz word for several years now, with many applications choosing to implement the serverless approach. This significantly lessens the time it takes to get your application production-ready as well as the time and effort required to maintain your infrastructure.

On top of that, services that help implement the serverless approach come with their own set of infrastructure-related limitations; in Lambda’s case, these limitations are the following: Whether or not these limitations will impact your application is dependant on the nature of your Lambda functions; usually, the solution is to refactor your Lambda functions to improve their efficiency.

If you’ve decided that Lambda may be a worthy addition to your stack, the next step is to understand the inner workings of a Lambda function.

AWS helps to ensure that your Lambda function is able to handle faults without impacting your entire application using a set of features they’ve included into Lambda.

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