Did you get all the serverless updates from AWS pre- & re:Invent 2021?️ If you’re a serverless enthusiast we’ve collected the most important serverless updates from re:Invent 2021 you need to know about.

AWS Lambda is an incredible tool that works well with an abundance of other services on AWS. In this hands-on walkthrough, we’ll show you how to get started and create your first Node.js AWS Lambda function. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a word caught my ear. Lambda. That struck a chord, remembering the good old days of playing Half-Life as a kid. Little did I know what AWS Lambda was and how incredibly awesome it is. If you’re intrigued, stick around.

When you want to stay ahead and on top of things in a fast-moving industry, machine learning (ML) is surely one of the trending solutions. Today, innovative companies already have leading Machine Learning tools well-integrated into their processes. In comparison, your start could seem dreadfully slow. Or maybe you just don’t have the time or resources to invest in running your own Machine Learning training infrastructure.

For time series workloads the ability of serverless functions to scale up and down is a major advantage, especially for something like IoT devices that may have intermittent connectivity and might suddenly send data in bursts. In this type of situation, it doesn’t make sense to be paying for a server to be running 24/7 when you can use a serverless function and only pay for the compute you use.