A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

Q. There are formulas that I am repeatedly having to create in my Excel workbook, and there are no built-in functions in Excel that can do these calculations. Is there a quicker way to reuse the same ...

The addition of durable execution to the popular serverless compute service is a big step forward, but beware the lock-in ...

You've probably heard about the LAMBDA function by now. Maybe you've seen it mentioned in Excel updates or stumbled across articles explaining how powerful it is. Yet here's the thing that nobody ...

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda functions, or what I would be just as happy to call anonymous functions. Some people make a big deal out of these but the core idea is very ...

When Amazon introduced AWS Lambda in 2015, the notion of serverless computing was relatively unknown. It enables developers to deliver software without having to manage a server to do it. Instead, ...

Learn how to effectively use the SCAN function in Excel to enhance your formula-building skills. This tutorial presents four practical examples: - Calculate year-to-date profit (YTD) as a running ...

The BYROW function is a powerful tool that applies a Lambda function to each row in your dataset. This function is particularly useful when you need to perform operations on a row-by-row basis. For ...