Complete guide to AWS Step Functions
What you'll learn
- Becoming familiar with the Step Functions service and when you should use it.
- Understand how to build business workflows using Lambda and Step Functions.
- Understand how to trigger Step Functions using API Gateway and CloudWatch Events.
- Understand how to wait for human input using activities and callbacks.
- Know how to monitor and debug Step Function executions.
- Get up-to-date on the latest features for the Step Functions service.
- Understand advanced concepts such as blue-green deployments and nested workflows.
- Understand best practices for using Step Functions.
- Learn common design patterns.
Course content
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Requirements
- Know the basics of AWS
Description
Master the art of serverless workflow orchestrate in AWS.
You will learn everything you need to make effective use of the AWS Step Functions service. At the end of the course, you should have a good grasp of how it works, when to use it, and design patterns and best practices to help you make the best use of the Step Functions service.
You will follow along with our hands-on demos to see how you can build business workflows and orchestrate Lambda functions using Step Functions. You will also learn how to trigger state machine executions using API Gateway and CloudWatch Events, as well as how to wait for human input using activities and callbacks.
Furthermore, Step Functions can integrate with far more than just Lambda functions. You will see how to integrate your state machines with other AWS services such as SNS, SQS and DynamoDB. You'll learn about best practices and see some common design patterns you can apply with Step Functions such as the Saga pattern.
Who this course is for:
- Software developers interested in serverless.
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I'm an independent consultant and AWS serverless hero with 10 years of experience of running production workload at scale in AWS. I have been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. I'm also a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally. And I'm the author of Production-Ready Serverless by Manning.