Launched at last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS Lambda is a unique service from Amazon. It enables developers to write short code snippets that run in response to various events generated by AWS ...

The original pitch for cloud computing is the ability to scale computing power to the needs and growth of your organization–without provisioning the physical hardware in advance, or dealing with the ...

In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...