Development practices

So, you've been building a few Lambda functions here and there to do some administration, maybe to ship your logs or respond to CloudWatch alarms. Now, you want to take your functions to the next level by using them as the compute mechanisms in a serverless application—maybe the backend of an API or an event-driven integration flow. First, congratulations on your achievement.

Next, you'll need some tips about how to make the most of the execution time you have available and be able to use the execution model to your advantage.

Structuring a function

In Chapter 3, The Foundations of a Function in AWS, we learned about the handler of a function and how that was the special entry point...