out of curiosity does anyone use state machines with serverless stacks?

I do. what’s up?

just wondering if it works well for you. Im thinking my lambda functions would benefit with state machines

depends on your use case, but yeah, they work great for me

what use cases do you find them useful in?

I use them on the front end. I’d like to know more about using them on the backend

@Kristian Lake anything that requires Lambda functions to execute in sequence, really. or branch to different functions conditionally

Thanks @Sam Hulick so daisy chaining lambda functions to other lambda functions and services? and using the step functions to handle flow/error logic?

exactly

brill. Glad I was thinking about them in the right way 🙂

I have two step functions. one is for user migration.. it goes through & migrates different types of data, one at a time, because each data type depends on the previous one being fully complete first. and then there’s a wait state that waits for one of the previous steps to complete before moving on the other is an audio processor that encodes audio and then runs some functions in parallel, like grabbing metadata & generating waveform data

nice thanks for your use cases

pretty easy, thanks to SST 😉

thats what i wanted to hear 😄

just be careful about the “hitting hard” part. you have a concurrency limit for Lambda (1000 concurrent invocations), and it can be easy to hit other rate limits for other services

ah thanks for the heads up

I run my entire front end on state machines. Modal has a state of visible and hidden and visible responds to events like

close

ah thats really cool