swf-lambda-activity-poller

A SWF Activity Poller, which starts a lambda.

This allows to manage long-running tasks through AWS Lambda.

Important: It is up to the lambda to respond to SWF, or to delegate it to a third party system !

Usage

register the activity

TODO LATER: register with gulp !

For the time being, register an activity: name: 'lambda-activity' version: '1.0' taskList: 'lambda-activity-tasklist' schedule to start timeout: 10s start to close timeout: 10days

Calling the lambda

Example for crowdflower

{ activity: 'lambda-activity', input: { 'lambda': 'some-very-long-job', 'params': { ... } } }