Unless you've asked for a limit increase _multiple_ times, I can guarantee you haven't reached the limit of step functions.

The default limits are _very_ conservative in large regions

(Admittedly, by the time you've asked for those limit increases you should probably reconsider what you're doing, you're bleeding $$$ at this point)

When I was growing up there was a shop a couple towns over that didn’t have better prices than the local one but he would have discounts that made people feel good and so they got suckered into driving a half hour away to get bilked. Even my dad who initially complained.

Feeling like you’re getting a special deal overrides objective thought. There’s a bunch of this stuff in AWS and it all feels dirty and wrong.

I think there complexity literally brings more money for the hyperscaler.

Serverless monolith ftw

Serverless monolith gang checking in!

I wrote a bit on how to achieve this with .NET (but probably applicable to many other frameworks/runtimes): https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/01/a-practical-guide-to-modul...

(It's inspired by the Google paper, but obviously a much simpler implementation appropriate for most non-Google scale teams)