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gbrits on Nov 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS Lambda

I guess the term 'Lambda' here is taken to mean 'a function without side effects'. So no higher-order chainability, etc. afaik.

jameshart on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

Except that it can have side effects, can't it - it can trigger services, cause stuff to be changed in a datastore. It doesn't have any local stateful storage, but it can make use of remote state. In that respect, how is it different from basically any web request processor?

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