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Step Functions: how to implement semaphores for state machines

Here at DAZN, we are migrating from our legacy platform into a brave new world of microfrontends and microservices. Along the way, we also discovered the delights that AWS Step Function has to offer, for example… flexible error handling and retry the understated ability to wait between tasks the ability to mix automated steps with …

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Video and slides for my talk “applying principles of chaos engineering to Serverless”

Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my talk at the recent AWS User Group meetup is now live! In this talk, I introduced the core concepts of chaos engineering, and the challenges that the Serverless paradigm brings to the existing tools and practices we use. I then looked at techniques …

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Video and slides for my talk “applying best parts of Microservices to Serverless”

Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my keynote at ServerlessDays TLV is now live! In this talk, I looked at a number of important lessons we learnt from the Microservices world and how they are still relevant to us as move to Serverless, and we can apply past learnings and …

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Serverless observability, what can you use out of the box?

part 1 : new challenges to observability part 2 : 1st party observability tools from AWS <- you are here part 3 : 3rd party observability tools part 4: the future of Serverless observability In part 1 we talked about the challenges serverless brings to the table. In this post, let’s look at 1st party tools from AWS …

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how to do fan-out and fan-in with AWS Lambda

In the last post, we look at how you can implement pub-sub with AWS Lambda. We compared several event sources you can use, SNS, Kinesis streams and DynamoDB streams, and the tradeoffs available to you. Let’s look at another messaging pattern today, push-pull, which is often referred to as fan-out/fan-in. It’s really two separate patterns …

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What is the best event source for doing pub-sub with AWS Lambda?

AWS offers a wealth of options for implementing messaging patterns such as pub-sub with Lambda, let’s compare and contrast some of these options. The pub-sub pattern Publish-Subscribe (often shortened to pub-sub) is a messaging pattern where publishers and subscribers are decoupled through an intermediary broker (ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, SNS, etc.). SNS + Lambda In the AWS ecosystem, the obvious …

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