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AWS connecting the dots, part 2

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AWS connecting the dots, part 2

- [Instructor] Connecting multiple serverless microservices to build an application requires communication and coordination among the components. Using the correct architectural patterns will provide opportunities for a efficient operation and scale. In part one, we talked about the services available to connect our serverless components. In part two, we'll give concrete examples of using SQS and SNS from our public transit insight dashboard application. We'll start wit SQS, Simple Queue Service. We use queues in many places where messages will be consumed by a single consumer. Here, we're processing the vehicle position reports and we will send a list of associated trip IDs using a queue. We're using a standard queue in this case. Two queue attributes to be aware of: Message retention period. This value determines how long an unprocessed message will remain in the queue available for receipt. And dead letter queue.…

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