Async patterns in Step Functions
From time to time we need our State Machines to wait for some async action, for example a webhook call, and we created a mechanism which we use all over our systems for that. We used it also to create a "recovery" pattern which we utilize to prevent fatal errors in executions.
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You can read more about this topic also in Radovan's blog post:
Asynchronous actions with AWS Step Functions
Callback Patterns are a very powerful feature of AWS Step functions, providing an easy way how to control the state machine execution flow. Let’s build a scalable solution which helps us track the current state of an execution and handles external asynchronous actions triggered by other services.
Radovan Fekeč
