AWS Step Functions Activities

Integrating decoupled workers into state machine workflows

Ross Rhodes
Towards Data Science
5 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Launched in 2016, AWS Step Functions offers state machines to orchestrate requests across AWS services. Supporting integrations with Lambda functions, SQS queues, DynamoDB tables, and many more services, Step Functions can automate complex processes and manage thousands of execution starts per second — accommodating…

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Senior Software Engineer architecting and building AWS serverless systems at KrakenFlex. Working primarily with Python and Node.js.