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I am a serveless user and new to Pulumi. In serverless, plugins like sls-webpack and sls-bundle are encouraged to be used for optimizing and bundling lambda functions &amp; dependencies. In Pulumi how should I handle it elegantly? Any best practice or plugins?

hey! It sort of depends, but a lot of users value out of using crosswalk and using things like the `FileAsset` classes, or you can even couple your function inline with your infrastructure code!
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/crosswalk/aws/lambda/>

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/pulumi/asset/>

Hey thanks for reply. Yeah I saw the lambda magic function and love it! But how should I bundle the dependencies? Were you suggesting to use fileAsset to include it in lambda layer?

And I have a use case which is using apollo-server-lambda and graphql with lambda and apigateway. In sls I always bundle them through webpack plugin to best optimize the size, cause lambda layer is not necessary here. In pulumi, how could I do it? Can you give me bit more clues? :blush:

so I'm no expert (hopefully maybe <@UB3BGTV63> can chime in here) but I believe the magic functions will compute this for you, take a look at this blog post
<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/lambdas-as-lambdas-the-magic-of-simple-serverless-functions/>

more here: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/tutorials/aws/serializing-functions/#determining-the-appropriate-node-modules-packages-to-include-with-a-lambda>