API402: Building Advanced Workflows with AWS Step Functions

Resources for API402: Building advanced workflows with AWS Step Functions

Are you an experienced serverless developer building applications with AWS Step Functions workflows? Are you wondering when to use a Map state, a Parallel state, or a nested workflow? In this session, learn about architectural best practices and repeatable patterns for building advanced workflows. Discover how to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications while being cost-effective. This session shares real production scenarios to illustrate the benefits for you.

AWS Step Functions JSONata Support

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With JSONata, you gain a powerful open source query and expression language to select and transform data in your workflows.

AWS Step Functions workflow variables

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Using workflow variables, you can store data in a step and retrieve that data in future steps. For example, you could store an API response that contains data you might need later.

Serverless Land

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Website dedicated to all things serverless on AWS. Maintained by the AWS Serverless Developer Advocates

Serverless Land workflow collection

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Use Step Functions workflows to quickly build applications using AWS SAM and CDK templates. Filter by use-case and copy the template or workflow definition directly into your application.

Presented by:

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services and is based in Northern Colorado. Eric is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping developers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this, Eric has worked as a developer, solutions architect and AWS Evangelist for an AWS partner company.

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