April 7, 2024, 1:59 p.m. | Thomas Taylor

DEV Community dev.to

In November 2023, I wrote a post describing how to deploy a lambda function with a function url in Python. For this post, I want to showcase how streamlined and practical it is to deploy a "Lambdalith" (a single Lambda function) that contains an entire API.


What this means:



  1. No API Gateway

  2. API requests can take longer than 30 seconds

  3. Faster deployments

  4. Local testing without cloud deployment

  5. Reduced costs *

  6. Easy management *


* = Depends on the use-case





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