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10th July 2021 - Link Blog

Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda (via) Bruno Schaatsbergen pulled together details about how AWS Lambda works under the hood from a detailed review of the AWS documentation, the Firecracker paper and various talks at AWS re:Invent.

Posted 10th July 2021 at 7:40 pm

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