Zombies love looking up at the clouds. They’re pretty, beautiful things, some white and puffy, some dark and menacing. But they’re so far away. Everyone talks about how great clouds are, but how is a zombie programmer ever going to walk among the clouds?
By getting airborne! I’ll walk you through the steps to get you into the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon offers some really great developer services. One of those is AWS Simple Notification Services, also known as SNS. It’s the trumpet of the AWS symphony.
In SNS, you create a “Topic” which you can think of as the subject of the notification. You will publish a message (think “record”) to the topic, and AWS sends the notification to the subscribers automatically.
Let’s take an example. You’re a zombie, and you’re shuffling around an abandoned farm. Or so you think. You hear a gunshot in the distance, and a gunshot means survivors, and … brainz! Since you’re a good zombie and have been taught to share, you get on your fancy $1000+ iPhone X
Yes, there are indeed zombie programmers. Perhaps you have missed the latest newsletter on the zombie apocalypse. If so, let me bring you up to speed.
Zombie Programmers have existed for a long time. Some go to school. Some work in cubicles. And some are freelance zombie programmers!
That’s me. I’m Zombie Tim.