AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for complex enterprise applications

In this talk, we will discuss strategies for organizing the development of complex applications with large teams, using the AWS CDK as a central technology component. The AWS CDK allows developers and administrators to define their infrastructure as code using the programming language of their choice, such as Typescript or Python. Applications are organized into stacks and constructs, which allows modular design techniques to be applied to both business logic code and infrastructure components such as S3 buckets, RDS databases, and containers. Going beyond simple tutorials on basic CDK concepts, we will discuss how developers write and test code locally, how it gets deployed to production and various staging accounts, and how a team's services can be organized to fit into a larger company-wide structure.