Serverless Orchestration

Is it weird to have a favorite serverless service? Because this one might be mine. AWS Step Functions is a workflow orchestration tool that helps you manage your distributed application by breaking it down into multiple steps (the name should make sense now). Step Functions integrated with over 220 AWS services, but personally I have found it most useful with my lambda functions, as it helps keep them small, concise, logical units of business code that are called systematically. It's easier to control and monitor your event as it flows through your application, so you can track which step your application is or identify where you may be running into issues. Step Functions also gives you more flexibility, as you can add in different 'states' like PASS or WAIT, and you can even run processes in parallel, or give your application Choices to execute on different steps depending on what the input or parameters are.

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AWS Step Functions

Is it weird to have a favorite serverless service? Because this one might be mine. AWS Step Functions is a workflow orchestration tool that helps you manage your distributed application by breaking it down into multiple steps (the name should make sense now). Step Functions integrated with over 220 AWS services, but personally I have found it most useful with my lambda functions, as it helps keep them small, concise, logical units of business code that are called systematically. It's easier to control and monitor your event as it flows through your application, so you can track which step your application is or identify where you may be running into issues. Step Functions also gives you more flexibility, as you can add in different 'states' like PASS or WAIT, and you can even run processes in parallel, or give your application Choices to execute on different steps depending on what the input or parameters are.

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Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS is also known as the Simple Queue Service. Much like people waiting in line for a busy ride at a theme park, sometimes you have places in your application where events may get backed up, creating a bit of a bottleneck and harming your application's performance (and potentially your wallet, too). A queue service such as SQS will help you process and maintain your events and messages as they come in. SQS specifically is what is known as a First-In First-Out or FIFO queue, meaning the first item in is the first item to be processed, just like the first person in line for our ride is the first person to get on. Sometimes with high volumes of messages waiting to be processed, there is risk that they get lost or skipped over in processing (disgruntled individuals leaving the long wait at the theme park ride) - having SQS in place prevents this problem from happening. It also means you do not have to worry about your other services being up and ready to handle incoming events, as SQS manages and stores the messages for you (the fun, roped off queue handles the people waiting and the order in which they arrived at our theme park ride). Just like our other services you can configure SQS, however this is a fairly 'Simple' service, so you'll find creating and maintaining an SQS queue to be uncomplicated.

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Amazon SNS

Amazon SNS or Simple Notification Service, is less of an orchestration service and more of a communication service. I am going to deem this a utility service, since it is a small service you can utilize for sending and receiving messages. One of the most common use cases for the SNS service is to send email alerts - maybe to developers to monitor application status, or maybe to users, to communicate new features or send email confirmations based on something like a booking reservation. You can also send as SMS text messages or mobile pushes, and you can customize your queue type and add encryption. Like SQS, this service is definitely 'Simple' and can be configured in just a few short lines of code, or button clicks in the AWS Console.

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