The other week while working away from home and using my phone with a poor connection as a mobile hotspot for my intel based macbook, I ran into a need for an aarch64 based system. I thought I would share what I came up with, not because I think it is especially useful, but because it was a lot of fun working through this without a stable internet connection. It has been a long time since I have been forced to work this way....
I have a theory that there are many choreographed AWS Lambda functions out there in the world doing asynchronous background work that would be better served by a managed central orchestration layer, and that a better developer experience on top of AWS Step Functions would make writing these workflows faster, cheaper and more sustainable than the choreographed version I frequently see. The Choreographed Lambda Workflow First, what do I mean when I describe choreographed AWS Lambda functions, where they might be a good fit, and where there’s likely dragons....