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A good friend of mine wrote an excellent demo of how to use the Serverless framework to build an AWS Lambda function that can serve more than one request. The folks over at Serverless have named this approach the "Monolithic Pattern" and its a great way to move into serverless hosting without having the sprawl of multiple hosted Lambda functions.