Here are some scenarios where SWF can be used:
- When you have multiple tasks that need to be coordinated and executed in a specific sequence based on some dependency or in parallel
- When you have multiple application components and need to dispatch tasks to these application components
- When you have a distributed application and you need to coordinate and process tasks in a distributed application environment
- When you need to execute ordered application steps
- When you need to manage the application state during distributed execution
- When you need to reliably execute periodic tasks and audit the execution
- When you need to asynchronously execute event-driven tasks
Here are some SWF use cases:
- Media processing
- Customer-order-processing workflow
- Web application backend
- Business-process workflow
- Analytics pipelines
Now that we know what SWF is and what it can...
