Introduction
Friends have asked that I report a from the trenches update on my thoughts on Lambdas. I fell in love about a year ago, so how do I feel now? I’ll cover the pro’s and con’s I faced, what I learned, and what I still don’t know.
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Tag: lambda
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AWS Adventures: Part 3 – Post Mortem on Lambdas
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AWS Adventures: Part 1 – Lambda
Introduction
At the beginning of October, I started a new project to help my team move a 12 year old application to the cloud. I knew next to nothing about Amazon, or their infrastructure offerings called AWS. In the past 3 months I’ve learned a ton. Today I wanted to share what I’ve learned about Lambdas: Functions you run in AWS.
Also known as serverless architecture.
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Functional Programming for OOP Developers: Part 1
Yeah yeah yeah, tl;dr; and show me the code, yo!
Introduction
I have been learning Functional Programming over the past year with a friend of mine. We’ve both cut our teeth on finding who to learn from, what articles are useful, and what actually translates into your day to day programming job. I’ve also learned a lot of natural problems that arise as you start a new project from scratch with an OOP background, or if you’re refactoring some OOP code to be more functional.
In this article, I wanted to share some of what I learned. Specifically what functional programming is, why it matters, how to use pure functions and list comprehensions in the real world. While I use JavaScript in this article, I’ve learned that the concepts and libraries supporting it are available in many programming languages.