SWF Flashcards
What is a Decider?
A program that controls the coordination of tasks - ordering, concurrency, scheduling - according to the application logic.
__________ are programs that interact with SWF to get tasks, process received tasks, and return the results.
Workers.
What is Amazon SWF?
Simple Workflow Service.
SWF is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.
What is a Worker?
A program that gets tasks from SWF, processes those tasks, and returns the results.
True or False: Workers and Deciders can run on cloud infrastructure only.
False.
The can run on cloud infrastructure or on machines behind firewalls.
__________ is a one-time step that you perform for each different type of workflows and activities.
Registration
A __________ is a program that controls the coordination of tasks - ordering, concurrency, scheduling - according to the application logic.
Decider
A logical container for your application resources is called a __________.
Domain