The example illustrates how a regular HTTP POST request (1) synchronously triggers a potentially complex Step Functions workflow with arbitrary steps and service integrations (2-5) via an API ...

AWS Step Functions is a way to make that all happen. After its debut in 2016, the service became known for its visual interface -- essentially, every application has requirements for how the app ...

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Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced support for distributed tracing for AWS Step Functions via AWS X-Ray. “Serverless architectures have ...

Google is alpha testing a rival to Amazon's super-lightweight cloud app framework, although it only supports JavaScript for now Amazon’s AWS Lambda was a radical idea: Use snippets of code in ...