Are We Making Lambda Too Hard?

Hot take alert! Some of the “best practices” we’re seeing nowadays are taking the simplicity of Lambda and throwing it right out the door.

Allen Helton
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readMay 4, 2023

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I am an AWS serverless hero with a strong focus on API design and standardization, event-driven architectures, and software automation.