Introduction

Guflow is a light weight and fluent API based .net library to ease the programming of Amazon SWF. You can find small introduction about Amazon SWF in next section but I suggest you read up about it at Amazon website. A better understanding of Amazon SWF will be helpful in using Guflow library.

Guflow:

• Allows you to create complex workflows with ease and flexibility
• Use async task for polling for new decisions and activity tasks
• Provide equal supports for scheduling the activities written in other framework/language
• Supports activity throttling and heartbeat
• Supports async/sync activity method
• Carefully designed to support all the relevant features of Amazon SWF. At the time of writing this document Guflow supports:
  • Activity
  • Timer
  • Signal
  • Workflow cancellation support
  • Marker
  • Activity throttling
  • Activity heartbeat and cancellation