22. What do you need to know about SQS?
AWS Bites4 Helmi 2022

22. What do you need to know about SQS?

Luciano and Eoin take a deep dive into SQS as part of a series on AWS event services and event-driven architecture. We talk about the kind of problems SQS can solve, all of the SQS features and how to configure and use SQS to achieve reliability and scalability without all the complexity. We also take some time to detail how SQS works with Lambda in terms of scaling, batching and filtering.

In this episode, we gave a special mention to three highly-recommended re:Invent 2021 talks on the topic of Enterprise Integration Patterns with AWS services:

  1. AWS re:Invent 2021 - Application integration patterns for microservices - Gregor Hohpe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttJAIQf7cTw
  2. AWS re:Invent 2021 - Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures - Sam Dengler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5GZNt0iMZY
  3. AWS re:Invent 2021 - AWS re:Invent 2021 - Application integration patterns for microservices - Dirk Froehner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhfuzEkN3Ck -

In addition, we mentioned the following resources.

- SQS: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

- Using Lambda with SQS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-sqs.html

- Lambda SQS Scaling: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/lambda-sqs-scaling/

- SLIC Watch (Serverless plugin for easy dashboards and alarms): https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-watch


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