JONES ZACHARIAH NOEL | Event-Driven Options in AWS

Welcome to the eighth episode of The Serverless Mindset podcast!

In this episode, I chat with Jones Zachariah Noel, an AWS Serverless Hero and DevRel at Freshworks in Bengaluru, India.

Show highlights

• Best options for choreography vs orchestration within the AWS ecosystem

• Why direct integrations are often to be preferred over custom code, even though there are challenges (such as testing)

• Why Jones recommends using SAM (Amazon’s Serverless Application Model) for building distributed serverless applications

• A bunch of useful testing techniques for event-driven applications

• How to prevent your Step Functions setup from turning into a monolithic system

• Rules of thumb for when to prefer orchestration vs choreography

Links and resources

• Everything AWS, Serverless and Architectures (newsletter curated by Jones)

• Jones Zachariah Noel on Twitter

• Amazon EventBridge

• Amazon Step Functions

• SAM

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Music by Anton_Vlasov from Pixabay