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Orchestrating Serverless
with AWS Step Functions
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…but I didn’t bring a laptop
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Who am I
Matt Williams
Evangelist at Datadog
[email protected]
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Organizer of DevOps Days Boston
2017 & 2018
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Who is Datadog
SaaS-based Monitoring & Analytics
Infrastructure, APM, Logs
Open Source Agent
Trillions of data
points per day
We are hiring!!
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I like to talk about Serverless…
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What is AWS Lambda
Its all about the function
Serverless
As far as you are concerned
Don’t pay for idle
Scale with ease
FaaS
Node 8.10/6.10, Golang, C# 1/2/2.1, Python 2.7/3.6, Java8
Trigger-based
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Trigger Based?
S3
DynamoDB
Kinesis
SNS
SES
Cognito
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch Logs & Events
CodeCommit
Config
Alexa
Lex
API Gateway
IoT
CloudFront
Lambda
http://tvl.st/khvid
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AWS
Lambda
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That’s pretty cool right? But not perfect
You still have to configure everything else
S3
DynamoDB
API Gateway
etc
SAM
Cloudformation
Serverless
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AWS
Lambda
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…but serverless !== ec2
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…but serverless !== applications
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…applications are complicated
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…serverless functions should
respect the single responsibility
principle…
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we can create many serverless functions
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we can create many serverless functions
but how do we orchestrate them?
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Event/Message/Database as Traffic Cop
Amazon Kinesis Amazon SQS Amazon DynamoDB
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https://github.com/Nordstrom/hello-retail
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Enter Step Functions
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Step Function Concepts
State Machine
States
Task
Choice
Succeed/Fail
Pass
Wait
Parallel
Transitions
Executions
You define the State Machine with the
Amazon States Language
A diagram will be generated based on that
structure
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State Example: Task
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State Example: Choice
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State Example: Succeed / Fail
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State Example: Pass
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State Example: Wait
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State Example: Parallel
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Many ways to build AWS Step Functions
I used Serverless Framework (http://tvl.st/sls)
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Benefits of Serverless Framework
Define everything in a single file:
IAM Role Statements
Function Handlers
Function Triggers
State Machine States
AWS CloudFormation for other things
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Amazon ECR
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
S3
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
CloudFront
AWS
CodeBuild
AWS
CodeCommit
AWS
CloudFormation
IAM
Amazon API
Gateway*
AWS Step
Functions
Amazon
SNS
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1.Use ML to figure out which slide
2.Is this slide different than the last time?
3.If so, pull slide data from Dynamo
4.If slide different then create document
in s3
5.Build the site
6.Wait for it
1.Is it built
7.Done
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Type: Task
Resource: Function
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Type: Task
Resource: Function
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Type: Task
Resource: Function
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How about monitoring?
We monitor serverless via Logs
MONITORING|unix_epoch_timestamp|value|count|
my.metric.name|#tag1:value,tag2
console.log(monitoringstring);
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What are the AWS Lambda Metrics
aws.lambda.duration, min, max, sum
aws.lambda.errors
aws.lambda.invocations
aws.lambda.throttles
aws.lambda.iterator_age
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What are the AWS Step Function Metrics
aws.states.execution_time (.maximum, .minimum)
aws.states.executions_aborted, failed, started, succeeded, timed_out
aws.states.lambda_functions_scheduled, started, succeeded, timed_out
aws.states.execution_throttled
aws.states.lambda_function_time (.maximum, .minimum)
aws.states.lambda_function_run_time (.maximum, .minimum)
aws.states.lambda_function_schedule_time (.maximum, .minimum)
aws.states.lambda_functions_started
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AWS Lambda and AWS Step Function Challenges
• Logging and debugging
• Don’t trust any function when it claims a step is complete
• Cold start depends on your use case
• Every function should do one thing…but granularity
depends
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Matt Williams
Evangelist at Datadog
[email protected]
all the socials: technovangelist
Organizer of DevOps Days Boston
2017 & 2018
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