Recursion

AWS Lambda: Long-Running Functions using Tail Recursion

AWS Lambda function has a timeout of 900 seconds which sometimes is not enough to finish tasks that take a longer time. In such cases, recursion is a technique that can be applied to solve the problem, provided the single task can be broken into sub-tasks. I am not talking about the recursion provided by the language, but recursion by re-invocation of the same lambda function with additional state for continuity of the task. This can be accomplished by utilizing...