I followed the same guide when I learned SWF and used it in a project. I appreciated the detailed guide and was amazed by the flow framework. Because of flow's

I followed the same guide when I learned SWF and used it in a project. I appreciated the detailed guide and was amazed by the flow framework. Because of flow's magic and the steep learning curve, I believe SWF might be the most underestimated AWS service. I agree that the java flow framework is complicated but very powerful as well. Seems the ruby flow framework is simpler to use (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/awsrbflowguide/helloworld.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/awsrbflowguide/h...).