At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.

Lambda SnapStart can be activated for new or existing Java-based Lambda functions running on Amazon Corretto 11, using the AWS Lambda API, AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), ...

So to learn Java lambda syntax, you need to be familiar with its three component parts: The argument list The arrow The method body To apply these concepts, we first need a functional interface. A ...

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

This tutorial demonstrates the power of lambda expressions by contrasting implementations of a mathematical example using C++, Java without lambdas, and Java 8 with lambda expressions.

The next tutorial in the Java 101 series will introduce method references, which you can combine with lambda expressions to write even more concise, readable Java code.

Developers can use Java 8, introduced last year, and any of the usual Java libraries, along with the AWS SDK for Java. AWS provides two libraries for Lambda, aws-lambda-java-core for function handlers ...