The ephemeral nature of AWS Lambda functions might have you believe that techniques like in-memory caching cannot be utilized like you would with a conventional server, but that’s not the case! Let’s check out why. To understand this first you need to understand how the Lambda function lifecycle works. Suppose you had a function named “query”, the first time it’s invoked, AWS will fetch your zippe
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