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Functions vs Containers: The Serverless Landscape • Marcia Villalba & Julian Wood

GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

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Optimizing AWS Lambda: Cold Starts and Efficiency

This chapter explores the challenges and strategies related to cold starts in AWS Lambda, emphasizing how environment reuse and lazy loading can mitigate execution delays. It also compares the performance benefits of container images over traditional seed images and discusses caching mechanisms that boost serverless function speed.

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