Serverless Architecture to Process a Queue

Serverless Architecture to Process a Queue

Serverless architecture can now be used to process an SQS queue. This is due to the AWS announcement adding support for SQS triggered events on...
Serverless architecture can now be used to process an SQS queue. This is due to the AWS announcement adding support for SQS triggered events on AWS Lambda. For companies embracing a serverless architecture this opens up new possibilities for event-driven architecture, streamlining batch infrastructure and much more. Before the feature launched, if you were a serverless shop that needed to process SQS messages, the only option was to use CloudWatch to trigger a Lambda function. That lambda then polled for messages and either fanned out workers or chewed threw batches of SQS messages. While this worked, it was prone to...