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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

One of the recurrent, valid criticisms of Java as a programming language is that it is wordy. You have to write a lot of code to get anything done. Lambda expressions relieve that problem for some ...

The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) yesterday announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

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 ...

AWS this week unveiled a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, which is designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, ...