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jsii
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The Stainless SDK Generator
What about jsii? The technology behind AWS sdks: https://aws.github.io/jsii/
Is Stainless similar, different?
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AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster
The libraries for other supported languages of CDK are built as wrappers for underlying JS or maybe TS code via https://github.com/aws/jsii
So all the core CDK code is written first in JS/TS and then stubs for the other languages are added
Unfortunately this is often done without consideration for how the other supported langs actually work, and artefacts of e.g. JS lack of support for kwargs leak through
This is why e.g. the typing in CDK Python is completely broken - pretty much uniformly the concrete types like "Resource" don't implement their corresponding interface like "IResource" (to a type checker)
(There are many other typing niggles like this but that's the most egregious and pervasive one)
At the end of the day, having to explicitly cast concrete types as their interface to satisfy type checker is a minor annoyance, albeit a stupid one that could have been avoided with more care in the core library.
I could live with that, but I encountered so many bugs and issues trying to use CDK on current project that it's now much clearer to me why every company I worked at previously was using Terraform.
Pretty sure some of those issues are ultimately CloudFormation ones. The cumbersome CF > CDK JS > CDK Python stack is great for obfuscating errors and making debugging hard or impossible though.
Pulumi do something similar, albeit with Go as the core language and Terraform underneath. From what I've seen with a little use they have a much more successful result though, Pulumi Python was not a complete mess, and deploys faster and more reliable with better error feedback. I guess they just took more care to get it right.
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Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Every version of the CDK uses an interop layer and runs on top of the Typescript version
https://github.com/aws/jsii
And as far as TF supports services before CFT. Guess which is easier for an AWS employee to do - getting the CF service team to support a new service or just contribute to Terraform’s open source project?
I know of at least one service where the service team introduced the needed APIs and then an employee of AWS wrote the TF provider and contributed to the project before AWS’s own internal team added it to CFT.
Source: former AWS ProServe employee
- JSii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes
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Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷♀️
To "meet developers where they are" is a beautiful tenet of AWS, and of the CDK, and inspired us to create awesome technology such as JSII and constructs.
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Automating AWS API gateways v1 REST
Yeah both CDKTF and Pulumi piggyback on JSII, a class translator that supports the languages you've mentioned, which was used as a building base for CDK.
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New open-source programming language for DevOps engineers by the creator of the CDK
The reason we chose to start with compilation to JavaScript and not some other popular cloud language is because JavaScript is currently one of the most used ones, and in addition, we are using JSII to write our SDK in Typescript and then export it for consumption in other languages, such as Go, Python, Java and others.
- Write SDK “base” in Rust, wrap in other languages?
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CDKTF Frequently Asked Questions
The CDKTF CLI is implemented in TypeScript. Providers and resources are implemented in TypeScript as well. jsii is used to compile the providers and resources to the supported languages.
- 10 things about AWS CDK
aws-sdk-js-v3
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AWS SDK v3 + DAX
From this GitHub issue and this one from 2021 it seems like AWS just doesn't care about this - so, asking here if anyone knows of a workaround (other than "just keep using v2"... that's not a long-term solution), or if any AWS devs can shed some light on the situation.
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Why and how you should use AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) on Node.js 18
First class typescript support, but everything is possibly undefined?
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ts-dynamodb-attributes-transformer - A code transformer of TypeScript object to DynamoDB attributes
I published "ts-dynamodb-attributes-transformer" that transforms the TypsScript object to Amazon DynamoDB attributes (precisely, this attributes type is Record that is defined at aws-sdk-js-v3).
- A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 Enters Open Beta
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Working with EKS: Using IAM and native K8s service accounts to access AWS S3
Once we have verified the presence of the AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE and AWS_ROLE_ARN environment variables, our pod is ready to connect to and read from S3. The following Typescript snippet illustrates a simple example which fetches the names of all the S3 buckets in our account. It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript V3
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Deno in 2021
If you'd like the Amazon JavaScript SDK to support Deno then make your support known on this thread:
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/1289
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AWS SDK v2 or v3 - which one should you use?
I really suggest checking out the repo and especially the Upgrading section for more details.
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AWS management: please add more staff to work on the AWS JS v3 SDK
No CloudFront URL signing - how can v3 SDK be labeled as general release if it doesn't have feature parity with the v2 SDK?
- AWS keeps dropping the ball with their AWS JavaScript v3 SDK
- ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"
What are some alternatives?
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
middy - 🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
projen - Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
aws4fetch - A compact AWS client for modern JS environments
awesome-projen - P6M7G8's Awesome Projen
cfn-diagram - CLI tool to visualise CloudFormation/SAM/CDK stacks as visjs networks, draw.io or ascii-art diagrams.
aws-sdk-js - AWS SDK for JavaScript in the browser and Node.js
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
bref - Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming [Moved to: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s]
cdk-appsync-project - Projen managed AppSync Transformer project