I was looking for a more sophisticated workflow than Saga from AxonFramework -- which we are currently using -- and I found one in Netflix Conductor. Sadly, I have searched the Internet for a dece...

Step Functions now support callback features to support manual approval. I wanted to know how the task token is generated and if we can pass our own task token string so that we do not require to s...

So timers are durable in workflow engines like Cadence, SWF and Step functions. Durable timer is useful for use cases that need to wait for a long period of time, then wake up to execute some busin...

Amazon are promoting boto3 for future development but do not provide enough documentation for the new boto3. Does anybody have any example code of using SWF with boto3 that they would care to shar...

For better or worse, we have migrated our whole LAMP web application from dedicated machines to the cloud (Amazon EC2 machines). It's going great so far but the way we do crons is sub-optimal. I ha...

I was wondering if there are any SWF workflow PHP sample code available for the AWS PHPSDK 2+ ?

Preamble: I'm trying to put together a proposal for what I assume to be a very common use-case, and I'd like to use Amazon's SWF and SQS to accomplish my goals. There may be other services that wil...

Amazon SWF was launched today. How best to consume it with Java / PHP / etc. ? The current SDK support doesn't appear to include it. I know it's new, but does anyone have any good resources ...

I am seeking advice on what's the best way to design this - Use Case I want to put multiple files into S3. Once all files are successfully saved, I want to trigger a lambda function to do some ot...

I am looking to build a web application which needs to run resource-intensive MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) calculations on-demand in R to generate some probability graphs for the user. Constrai...

Use Amazon SWF to communicate messages between servers? On server A I want to run a script A When that is finished I want to send a message to server B to run a script B If it completes success...

There many workflow system out there but I was wondering which one of the open source workflow management system is the closest to the AWS Flow Framework (with Amazon SWF like capability buil...

I've just started out using the AWS Ruby SDK to manage as simple workflow. One behavior I noticed right away is that at least one relevant worker and one relevant decider must be running prior to s...