Great to see open source tooling around Step Functions. Personally I'm still holding out for someone taking the States language spec (https://states-language.net/spec.html) and turning out higher-level tooling for writing/inspecting/manipulating state machines.
Agree w/ bpicolo (hi Ben!) that the tooling still can come a long way for those who can't use Lambdas directly. This code is interesting, but it misses my major use case for Step Functions -- running a workflow across several services transparently.
If I had to guess the future, I suspect that tools like Step Functions will become more and more crucial as we realize that in a FaaS world the job of coordination is complex and essential.
Agree w/ bpicolo (hi Ben!) that the tooling still can come a long way for those who can't use Lambdas directly. This code is interesting, but it misses my major use case for Step Functions -- running a workflow across several services transparently.
If I had to guess the future, I suspect that tools like Step Functions will become more and more crucial as we realize that in a FaaS world the job of coordination is complex and essential.
Interesting video from Tim Bray showing off the variety of Step Function uses in the wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMaqd5J69Ns. Lots of Lambda, but not solely!