Here’s a post I wrote for Scalyr’s Blog almost a year ago. Functions-as-a-service are a very useful technology, and I plan on writing more about it here, and how it can relate to IoT and especially robotics. AWS Lambda is one of the leading serverless architectures in the cloud today. It was first-to-market among the major cloud vendors, offers the most competitive pricing, and is employed by Netflix, one of the largest cloud service providers in existence.