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middy
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Clean authorization control in serverless functions
In many cases, you will have to write the same authorization code in multiple functions. For example, you might want to check that the user is in the requested organization. You can share this code in a middleware. If you are using AWS Lambda, you can rely on middy.
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Testing Serverless Applications on AWS
Adding the is-test flag to our object metadata gave us our way of passing some kind of test context into our workload. The next step was to make the Lambda Function capable of discovering the context and then using that to control how it behaves under test. For this we used Middy.
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Learn serverless on AWS step-by-step: Strong Types!
I also decided to use the middy library to add CORS management to our lambda function. This will allow us to call our lambda function from our frontend, without having to worry about CORS.
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Go Lambda Middlewae
Is there any equivalent to Node based https://middy.js.org/ for Golang?
- Middy: AWS Lambda middleware framework for Node.js
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The Old Faithful: Why SSM Parameter Store still reigns over Secrets Manager
And if your requirements were to change at a later date, it’s straightforward to swap out SSM Parameter Store with Secrets Manager there and then. Especially if you’re accessing the relevant service through a middleware layer such as Middy for javascript Lambda functions.
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Implementing Magic Links with Amazon Cognito: A Step-by-Step Guide
This function uses the Middy middleware engine to handle unhandled errors and add CORS headers in the response.
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Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
I mean I'm literally building an AWS lambda function that outputs HTML when it's called via API Gateway. So someone hits https://mydomain.com/mycoolpage, then the MyCoolPage AWS Lambda function is executed and outputs whatever.
If you're interested, I use https://middy.js.org/ as a middleware engine for my AWS lambda functions which I find helpful.
I use the open sourced serverless framework for doing deploys https://www.serverless.com/
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tRPC: Build Full-Stack TypeScript Applications With Type Safety
middy for lambda-side middleware
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How to Securely Use Secrets in AWS Lambda?
That is it from the CDK side. Now let us create the handler and retrieve that secret. I like to use middy which describes itself as "stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda". It offers some helpful middlewares like ssm which will help us retrieve and cache values from SSM Parameter Store. (Middy provides various other official middlewares including one for Secrets Manager.) I prefer a middleware for this because it keeps the code for retrieving the secret out of your handler which should deal with actual business logic.
jsii
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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
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
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My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi
cdk-django and pulumi-aws-django are both written in TypeScript. terraform-aws-django is written in HCL, a domain specific language created by HashiCorp. The cdk-django is published to both npm and PyPI, so you can use it in JavaScript, TypeScript and Python projects, other languages are supported as well, but you need to write your library in TypeScript so it can be transpiled to other languages using jsii.
What are some alternatives?
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
dynamodb-toolbox - A simple set of tools for working with Amazon DynamoDB and the DocumentClient
projen - Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
aws-sdk-js-v3 - Modularized AWS SDK for JavaScript.
awesome-projen - P6M7G8's Awesome Projen
typescript-badges - :smirk_cat: TypeScript Badges
powertools-lambda-typescript - Powertools is a developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming [Moved to: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s]