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Scott Gerring

Author: Scott Gerring

Scott Gerring is a Solutions Architect at AWS, working with SMB customers in Zürich, Switzerland. He has extensive experience building on the cloud, and is passionate about empowering developers through modern tools and architectures.

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Managing Asynchronous Workflows with a REST API

While building REST APIs, architects often discover that they have particular operations that have to run in the background outside of the request processing scope. Some of these may be “fire and forget”—there is no need to report back to the client—for example, when initiating a shipment. For others, the client may need a response, […]