22. What do you need to know about SQS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoA-ds8-8c

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.

00:00 Intro
00:55 What is SQS good for?
02:53 Example use cases
05:14 Features of SQS
09:50 Integration with other services
10:30 How do you generally use SQS
12:18 What happens if you forget to delete a message?
14:00 Configuration options
17:30 Limitations of SQS
20:00 SQS integration with Lambda
23:00 Interesting re:Invent talks about SQS
25:56 Outro

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:

AWS re:Invent 2021 - Application integration patterns for microservices - Gregor Hohpe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttJAI...
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures - Sam Dengler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5GZN...
AWS re:Invent 2021 - AWS re:Invent 2021 - Application integration patterns for microservices - Dirk Froehner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhfuz... -

In addition, we mentioned the following resources.
- SQS: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
- Using Lambda with SQS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/la...
- Lambda SQS Scaling: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport...
- SLIC Watch (Serverless plugin for easy dashboards and alarms): https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-w...

You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7Pzq...
- Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
- Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites
- RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss

Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address?
Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter:
- https://twitter.com/eoins
- https://twitter.com/loige