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#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski

Happy Path Programming

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How to Use Smithy to Generate Code

Amazon built this for themselves they likely use it internally to interoperate between their own services but then they generate their stks around it. smithy has like two syntaxes one of them is the ideal and then you have like the serialized version of it in JSON that can be decoded by standard smithy tooling. One thing he built was sort of like a pipeline that takes theseJSON files of the AWS specs and republishes that so that you can well it's easier to read for humans so that's that might be useful. It also packages that up into jars which is a common thing to do when you want to distribute these specs.

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