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Master AWS Lambda best practices for optimizing performance, reducing cold starts, controlling costs, and securing your serverless functions in production.
Compare API Gateway and Application Load Balancer for fronting AWS workloads, including features, pricing, latency, and when to use each in production.
What actually happens during a Lambda cold start, why some functions are worse than others, and the techniques that meaningfully reduce p99 latency in production.
Learn how AWS Step Functions coordinate Lambda, ECS, and SDK calls into reliable state machines, with patterns for retries, parallelism, and error handling.
A beginner-friendly tour of AWS Lambda — the handler signature, runtime choices, triggers from API Gateway and S3 and EventBridge, cold starts, packaging, and the IAM execution role every function needs.