The Serverless Mindset Podcast

JONES ZACHARIAH NOEL | Building Event-Driven Applications on AWS

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Episode notes

Welcome to the eighth episode of The Serverless Mindset podcast!

In this episode, I chat with Jones Zachariah Noel, an AWS Serverless Hero and DevRel at Freshworks in Bengaluru, India.

Show highlights

* Best options for choreography vs orchestration within the AWS ecosystem

* Why direct integrations are often to be preferred over custom code, even though there are challenges (such as testing)

* Why Jones recommends using SAM (Amazon’s Serverless Application Model) for building distributed serverless applications

* A bunch of useful testing techniques for event-driven applications

* How to prevent your Step Functions setup from turning into a monolithic system

* Rules of thumb for when to prefer orchestration vs choreography

Links and resources

* Everything AWS, Serverless and Architectures (newsletter curated by Jones)

* Jones Zachariah Noel on Twitter

* Amazon EventBridge

* Amazon Step Functions

* SAM

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