Monday January 13th I was invited by AWS User Group Oslo to the annual AWS re:Invent re:Cap meetup.
Gunnar Grosch from AWS took the audience through highlights of new announcements from the pre:Invent and actual re:Invent period. Colin from Capra Consulting shared his perception about the state of Platform Engineering, before an interesting panel discussion with Gunnar, Erlend from Capra, Anders from Webstep and Martin from Sopra Steria.
My contribution was a reflection on recent and valuable features in AWS Step Functions which can make the developer experience simpler and more efficient, reducing the time from idea to functionality.
Highlights
- How to manage AWS Step Functions configuration with Infrastructure-as-Code
- Going from application (Lambda) code to Step Functions workflow configuration
- Breaking apart a “Lambda-lith”
- Step Functions intrinsic functions
- JSONata support, in addition to JSONPath
- Walkthrough of JSONata native functions
- Support for Variables
- Step Functions Distributed Map state
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