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> DO NOT USE AWS STEP, it's hot garbage. This right here is the epitome of the cloud risk: the tarpits are hidden and keep moving. People swear by some golden
by namaria 3y ago
> DO NOT USE AWS STEP, it's hot garbage.
This right here is the epitome of the cloud risk: the tarpits are hidden and keep moving.
People swear by some golden happy path they found. They claim that means cloud is an amazing new frontier of platform engineering. Then they warn of the hidden tarpit they found and never seem to connect the dots.
- foofie 3y agoAWS Step Functions is hardly a hidden tarpit. Step Functions are AWS' answer to the question "how can we easily execute lambdas from AWS triggers as part of a Saga?" Sagas are hard, and developers already use AWS stuff like S3 and SNS to run lambdas as part of transactions. Providing a high-level Saga service sounds like a solution to everyone's problem, but getting it right seems to be a problem too hard for AWS. But you do not need a Step Functions to run Lambdas, specially if you don't have to run them as part of distributed transactions.