Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...

While I focus on AWS Lambda here, the same general principles will apply to using Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, IBM Cloud Functions, Oracle Functions, and other FaaS platforms.

It’s just hard to think up that many disposable function names. However, if you use gcc, there are some nonstandard C features you can use to get most of what you want out of lambda expressions.