Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

The LAMBDA function in Excel is transforming how users handle formulas by enabling the creation of custom, reusable functions. This capability simplifies complex calculations, reduces errors, and ...

If you've ever found yourself rewriting the same Excel logic in different places, or building long formulas just to reuse parts of them, you're not alone. As spreadsheets grow, formulas tend to get ...

In Excel spreadsheets, complex formulas are difficult to enter without making mistakes. Microsoft Excel’s LAMBDA() function can make such errors easier to find. LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft ...

Excel's LAMBDA helper functions are the future, but knowing which one to pick is the real challenge. This is your go-to whistle-stop guide for matching the function to the task and building ...

Even for C++'s ancestor, C, one of its most valued features was the ability to declare functions as parameters for other functions or procedures. This month, I'll focus on lambda expressions in C++.

Enterprise application design is changing. The huge, complex, monolithic applications of years past are being replaced by applications that are assembled from a series of individual components called ...

Enterprises are increasingly using AWS Lambda in a broader set of scenarios. As a result, there's added focus on making sure Lambda functions are configured to securely interact with other AWS ...

Before Java SE 8, anonymous classes were typically used to pass functionality to a method. This practice obfuscated source code, making it harder to understand. Java 8 eliminated this problem by ...