The Evolution of AWS from a Cloud-Native Development Perspective: Serverless, Event-Driven, Developer-Friendly, Sustainable

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  • serverless

    This is intended to be a repo containing all of the official AWS Serverless architecture patterns built with CDK for developers to use. All patterns come in Typescript and Python with the exported CloudFormation also included. (by cdk-patterns)

  • Freshly at the helm of AWS, Adam Selipsky held his first re:Invent Keynote. Selipsky’s primary message: AWS is shifting from merely offering infrastructure primitives to embracing the idea of being a so-called platform of platforms. Therefore, AWS’s offerings will increasingly become an interesting piece of organizational value chains. While Amazon CTO Werner Vogels took the stage after an introduction referencing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his keynote wasn’t as spectacular. Dr. Vogels took the time to make a case for Well-Architected applications, which we interpret as a good signal for builders. Other highlights were the release of Construct Hub and the CDK Patterns library.

  • aws-sdk

    Landing page for the AWS SDKs on GitHub

  • In 2002, Jeff Bezos's so-called API Mandate forced all Amazon teams to expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Amazon has built AWS around the same principles: every service is programmatically controllable, from starting a virtual machine to accessing a satellite. While this is an essential property of an effective cloud platform, it is not necessarily developer-friendly. By now, AWS has incrementally and significantly improved in this space. Besides using their APIs, we can control services and infrastructure with a unified Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Development Kits (SDK), CloudFormation, and, since July 2019, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The CDK had a massive impact on developer productivity and satisfaction. While teams could already access and control services and infrastructure using the AWS SDK and their favorite programming language, infrastructure was primarily defined using incredible amounts of mostly punctuation marks and whitespace, also known as YAML or JSON. CDK — initially only flavored TypeScript and Python — finally gave developers an AWS-native means to define Infrastructure as actual Code. Since its introduction, AWS has added support for more languages, like Java, C#, and Go.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • aws-lambda-java-libs

    Official mirror for interface definitions and helper classes for Java code running on the AWS Lambda platform.

  • Compute: running code without provisioning servers (Lambda, Fargate).

  • aws-cloudformation-coverage-roadmap

    The AWS CloudFormation Public Coverage Roadmap

  • In 2002, Jeff Bezos's so-called API Mandate forced all Amazon teams to expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Amazon has built AWS around the same principles: every service is programmatically controllable, from starting a virtual machine to accessing a satellite. While this is an essential property of an effective cloud platform, it is not necessarily developer-friendly. By now, AWS has incrementally and significantly improved in this space. Besides using their APIs, we can control services and infrastructure with a unified Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Development Kits (SDK), CloudFormation, and, since July 2019, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The CDK had a massive impact on developer productivity and satisfaction. While teams could already access and control services and infrastructure using the AWS SDK and their favorite programming language, infrastructure was primarily defined using incredible amounts of mostly punctuation marks and whitespace, also known as YAML or JSON. CDK — initially only flavored TypeScript and Python — finally gave developers an AWS-native means to define Infrastructure as actual Code. Since its introduction, AWS has added support for more languages, like Java, C#, and Go.

  • aws-cdk

    The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  • In 2002, Jeff Bezos's so-called API Mandate forced all Amazon teams to expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Amazon has built AWS around the same principles: every service is programmatically controllable, from starting a virtual machine to accessing a satellite. While this is an essential property of an effective cloud platform, it is not necessarily developer-friendly. By now, AWS has incrementally and significantly improved in this space. Besides using their APIs, we can control services and infrastructure with a unified Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Development Kits (SDK), CloudFormation, and, since July 2019, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The CDK had a massive impact on developer productivity and satisfaction. While teams could already access and control services and infrastructure using the AWS SDK and their favorite programming language, infrastructure was primarily defined using incredible amounts of mostly punctuation marks and whitespace, also known as YAML or JSON. CDK — initially only flavored TypeScript and Python — finally gave developers an AWS-native means to define Infrastructure as actual Code. Since its introduction, AWS has added support for more languages, like Java, C#, and Go.

  • aws-appsync-community

    The AWS AppSync community

  • (Application) integration: EventBridge, Step Functions, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), API Gateway, AppSync.

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