Benefits of loosely coupled systems

• Fewer dependencies
• Failure isolation
• Evolvable architecture

The evolution of service-oriented architecture

Amazon's Distributed Computing Manifesto

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html

Workflow Patterns

AWS Application Integration services for event-driven architecture

AWS Step Functions Distributed Map

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-step-functions-large-scale-parallel-workflows-data-processing-serverless-applications/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/step-functions-distributed-map-a-serverless-solution-for-large-scale-parallel-data-processing/

Event-driven architecture

Integrating ReadMe with Amazon API Gateway to Keep Your Developer Hub Up to Date

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/integrating-readme-with-amazon-api-gateway-to-keep-your-developer-hub-up-to-date/

AWS Application Composer

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-application-composer-preview/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/visualize-and-create-your-serverless-workloads-with-aws-application-composer/

Note: The service is currently in preview

Amazon EventBridge Pipes

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-pipes.html

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-eventbridge-pipes-generally-available/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-create-point-to-point-integrations-between-event-producers-and-consumers-with-amazon-eventbridge-pipes/

AWS Heros

https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes

The Amazon Builders Library

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/

Amazon CodeCatalyst

https://aws.amazon.com/codecatalyst/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/announcing-amazon-codecatalyst-preview/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-codecatalyst-preview-a-unified-software-development-service/

Note: The service is currently in preview

AWS Ambit Scenario Designer

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/create-3d-content-for-simulation-using-ambit/

Curious about Quantum Computing, with Werner Vogels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tcTF_ag_wWU

About the Author

Eyal Estrin is a cloud and information security architect, the owner of the blog Security & Cloud 24/7 and the author of the book Cloud Security Handbook, with more than 20 years in the IT industry.

Eyal is an AWS Community Builder since 2020.

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