Derek C. Ashmore gave a presentation on AWS Lambda deployments, best practices, and common mistakes. The presentation covered what AWS Lambdas are, their benefits and limitations, developing Lambda functions using different programming languages, deploying Lambdas using API Gateway and SNS, and tales from the field about common issues. The presentation provided resources for sample code and addressed questions about performance, using Lambdas for microservices, and the future of serverless computing.