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API201

Serverlesspresso:
Building event-driven
applications from the start
Benjamin Smith
Principal Developer Advocate, Serverless
AWS

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Agenda

The workshop environment

The modules and services used

Coding

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General housekeeping

• Running time is 2 hours

• Use the provided AWS account
• Questions? We are here to help!

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The AWS services you will be using today

Developer tooling
AWS Management AWS CloudShell
Console

Focus of this workshop

Amazon AWS AWS
EventBridge Step Functions IoT Core

Deployed with the

core template AWS Amazon API Amazon SNS Amazon
Lambda Gateway DynamoDB

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AWS re:Invent Multiple AWS Summits and developer
1,920 orders events around the world
71 drinks per hour
3 minutes and 34 seconds of further reading

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AWS re:Invent 2022

• 1,920 drinks in re:Invent

• 71 drinks per hour
• Appeared at AWS Summits,
EDA Day, GOTO, and others
• Averages 1,000 order/day

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Setup – The core resources
AWS account

Frontends EventBridge Step Functions

Order manager service
Event bus Order processing workflow
REST API
Events

API Step DynamoDB Events

Gateway Functions table
Ordering
app
QR validator service

REST API
Events
Display API Lambda DynamoDB
app Gateway function table

Events
Publisher service
WebSocket
API
Barista Events
app AWS Lambda
IoT Core function

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Today’s adventure

• Setup
Deploy the backend core resources
• Module 1: Building the workflow
Build the order processing workflow that manages the drink orders
through production
• Module 2: Routing events
Create event rules to route events across microservices
• Module 3: Configuring the frontends
Configure the frontend applications to connect to the backend that
you’ve built so far, and send some test orders

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Serverless systems scale easily – Humans don’t

Barista

Order

Order
app

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Order processor service
Orchestrates each order from start to completion

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AWS Step Functions
FULLY MANAGED STATE MACHINES ON AWS

• Pay per use

• Scales automatically
• Fully managed
• Drag and drop or ASL
• Built-in error handling
• Integrates with over
200 AWS services

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Today’s adventure

• Setup
Deploy the backend core resources
• Module 1: Building the workflow
Build the order processing workflow that manages the drink orders
through production
• Module 2: Routing events
Create event rules to route events across microservices
• Module 3: Configuring the frontends
Configure the frontend applications to connect to the backend that
you’ve built so far, and send some test orders

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Communicating between microservices
USING AMAZON EVENTBRIDGE FOR CHOREOGRAPHING MICROSERVICES

AWS Cloud

• Event flow drives the application

Order Events EventBridge

• Events choreograph the services, manager Event bus

service

while Step Functions

QR Events
orchestrates the transactions validator
service

• Add new microservices as event Events Events

Order
Publisher
consumers without changing service
processing
workflow

existing code Order Events

EventBridge
• Microservices emit events
journey
rules
service

independently of consumers Config Events

service

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 • Serverless – pay only for the
Amazon events you process
EventBridge • Simplified scaling avoids
increasing costs of sustaining and
A serverless event bus service managing resources
for AWS services, your own
applications, and SaaS • No upfront investments, ongoing
providers licensing, or maintenance costs

• No specialist knowledge needed

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Today’s adventure

• Setup
Deploy the backend core resources
• Module 1: Building the workflow
Build the order processing workflow that manages the drink orders
through production
• Module 2: Routing events
Create event rules to route events across microservices
• Module 3: Configuring the frontends
Configure the frontend applications to connect to the backend that
you’ve built so far, and send some test orders

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The frontend applications
VUE.JS APPS HOSTED WITH AWS AMPLIFY CONSOLE

1. Ordering app 2. TV display app 3. Barista app

• Loads menu • Shows current • Shows incoming orders
• Scans barcode to get barcode • Enables order
order token • Receives order status completion or
• Sends order updates cancellation

• Displays updates • Listens for store • Enables store

open/close events open/close events

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Handling async responses
with real-time updates

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Using AWS IoT Core for real-time messaging

Frontend application uses pub-sub to “listen” for event updates

Frontend application AWS Cloud

Subscribe to topic Subscriptions AWS IoT Core

1
Messages
Publishing
AWS SDK Messages IoT topic
function

Frontend uses AWS SDK to subscribe to a topic based on user’s unique user ID

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Using AWS IoT Core for real-time messaging

Frontend application uses pub-sub to “listen” for event updates

Frontend application AWS Cloud

Subscribe to topic Subscriptions AWS IoT Core

Messages
2 Publishing
AWS SDK Messages IoT topic
function

Receives messages published by the backend to this topic

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Using AWS IoT Core for real-time messaging

Frontend application uses pub-sub to “listen” for event updates

Frontend application AWS Cloud

Subscribe to topic Subscriptions AWS IoT Core

3 Messages
Publishing
AWS SDK Messages IoT topic
function

Messages are categorized using topics; topic names are UTF-8 encoded strings

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