Autoscaling AWS Step Functions Activities

1 · Yelp.com · June 20, 2019, midnight
In an ongoing effort to break down our monolithic applications into microservices here at Yelp, we’ve migrated several business flows to modern architecture using AWS Step Functions. Transactional ordering at Yelp covers a wide variety of verticals, including food (delivery/takeout orders), booking, home services, and many more. These orders are processed via Step Functions, where each is represented as an execution instance of the workflow, as shown below. Figure 1: Illustrative Step Functions ...