92. Decomposing the Monolith Lambda
In this episode of AWS Bites, we take you on a captivating migration journey. Together, we'll explore how we transformed fullstackbulletin.com's automation process, leaving behind the complexities of a monolithic AWS Lambda and embracing the efficiency of Step Functions.
Join us as we dive into the challenges of automating a weekly newsletter, trying to strike the perfect balance between automation and manual curation. We'll discover the risks of relying on external services and how we navigated these obstacles during our migration.
Together, we'll uncover the step-by-step process of breaking down the monolithic Lambda architecture and orchestrating a more manageable approach with Step Functions. We will also briefly touch on alternative social platforms like Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives during our migration adventure.
Learn with us about different migration strategies and the crucial role of observability for smooth operations. Finally, we will share some valuable lessons that you can apply to your production workloads.
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🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:45 The context: a weekly newsletter automated using AWS Lambda
01:21 The different steps in the automation
03:58 The balance between automation and manual curation
06:06 The problems of relying on external services: what happens when they change?!
09:51 Decomposing all this complexity into steps orchestrated by a step function
11:54 The advantages of using a step function
12:55 A segway about Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives
14:35 Migration strategies: big bang migrations vs incremental steps
17:23 Observability considerations: how do we know when things go wrong?
19:00 Lessons learned we can use for more serious production workloads
22:09 Resources and closing notes
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
Fullstack Bulletin: https://fullstackbulletin.com/
Fullstack Bulletin on GitHub: https://github.com/FullStackBulletin/
Fullstack Bulletin remake recordings (YouTube playlist): • Fullstack bulletin fixes / remake
SLIC Watch for automated observability: https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-w...
Eoin on Mastodon: https://mastodon.ie/@eoins
Luciano on Mastodon: https://mastodon.ie/@loige
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