Chapter 14. Introducing AWS Lambda

I still remember the days when there was a clear demarcation between IT developers and system administrators; so much so that, each time a developer wanted a simple software platform or environment to be set up on their workstations, they would have to log one or more change requests, then dubiously wait for an IT admin to come along, who would more often than not provide you with an incorrect version of the software that you requested. Basically, you would end up wasting a week's effort just to get some simple software like Java or Tomcat to be setup, right? Many of us have sometime or the other been through this so called vicious cycle in IT and some still do, even today. But what if I told you that there is some ray of light around the corner! What if you, as a developer had the flexibility to simply write your code and put it up for execution; without having to worry about the underlying software platform, the OS or the hardware on which your code will...