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The Ultimate Guide to AWS Step Functions — “Ultimate” is always a hard word to defend in a title, but this is still a pretty good introduction to AWS’s often misunderstood ‘state machines/workflows as a service’ system.

Choreography vs Orchestration in the Land of Serverless — Choreography and Orchestration describe two modes of interaction in a microservices architecture, with one having every service dance independently, and in the other being controlled by an ‘orchestrator’. Yan Cui covers both from the context of serverless.

Building Serverless Workflows with AWS Step Functions — The author explains it best: “Our learnings from building a serverless workflow to automate our DB syncing process using AWS Step Functions. Dive deep with code examples and SAM templates to go from zero to fully automated workflows.”

The Dynamic Composer: An AWS Serverless Pattern — Serverless expert Jeremy Daly shares a scenario where dynamically composing AWS Lambda functions gets similar results to Step Functions but with a simpler setup.