Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by nullsense on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:29PM
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CDK made IaC accessible to me. I hated raw CloudFormation and never bothered with it because of that reason. I had a crack at Terraform, but never got passed the learning curve before my enthusiasm died.
Currently using some CDK in a production app and finally I found a way of doing IaC I actually enjoy.
You might really like pulumi. I'm kind of on the opposite end, ops>swe so tons of IAC and i'm using pulumi now as I'm more swe focused https://www.pulumi.com/ (ive no relation to them)
I'm late but can't edit, if anyones curious I just found a great article on it; https://itnext.io/getting-started-with-pulumi-sdk-22dc0b7ab8...
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by nullsense on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:07AM
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Basically exact same as CDK. I really prefer this style over CloudFormation and Terraform. I think Pulumi emerging as another player in the space legitimizes the approach.
CDK is moving quite fast and not all parts are out of the experimental phase, so there are breaking changes shipped often. I think in a couple of years it will stabilize and mature and become a very productive way of working with infrastructure.
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
by autotune on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:40PM
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This doesn't solve the general lack of observability, lack of logging, and slowness of CloudFormation itself.
AWS Lambda logs to Cloudwatch, and has monitoring out of the box.
There's a couple of sharp edges still but in general it just 'makes sense'. If you don't like TypeScript there are also bindings for Python and Java, among others, although TypeScript is really the preferred language.