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How to Resolve Serverless error: lambda is not a function

When trying to invoke any of your lambda functions if you are getting an error that says "lambda is not a function" the problem is likely that the handler is misspelled in the serverless.yml file OR you aren't exporting modules.exports.handler and are instead exporting something else.

January 15, 2019
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Cloud Computing

Setting CloudWatch Rentention Policies in Serverless

The serverless default for CloudWatch Logs is to keep the logs forever. CloudWatch Logs are pretty expensive to keep around indefinitely. In the serverless.yml file, we're able to set how long the cloudwatch logs are kept for. I recommend keeping them for at least 7 days but 30 days is probably more ideal.

December 4, 2018
Cloud Computing

5 Reasons to Use AWS Lambda

In late 2014, AWS Lambda launched and has grown in widespread use since then. AWS lambda is a serverless computing technology which…

March 9, 2018
What is Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is basically using servers whether they be for databases, storage, application or something else through the internet. There’s quite a…

March 2, 2018
Why JavaScript
Cloud Computing

Why JavaScript

In the earlier days of the web, there was a battle between two scripting languages VBScript and JavaScript. VBScript, thankfully, eventually died…

October 3, 2017
Cloud Computing

S3 File Manager

Amazon’s S3 service is incredible because of it’s incredibly scalable object storage infrastructure. Unlike consumer facing services like Dropbox there’s very few…

May 16, 2017