Is it possible or desirable to build a complex workflow using just direct service integrations?

This talk will recreate a production service in a serverless environment with no Lambda functions to answer the question whether it is possible. Whether it is desirable or not? That’s for you to decide.

As AWS has been adding more and more direct service integrations I thought it would be interesting to try and create a service using just service integrations without writing any code. Spoiler it was!

Rather than just a CRUD API I recreated one of my teams actual production workloads including an API, workflow orchestration and events.

This talk will show how I built the workflow using these AWS services:

API Gateway
DynamoDB
EventBridge Bus
EventBridge Pipes
EventBridge Scheduler
SNS
SQS
Step Functions

The workload is based around this repo which contains the CDK https://github.com/ChrisDobby/aws-no-code-challenge