Balancing Opinions and Customization in Cloud Infrastructure

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Adam Keller - Senior Technologist at AWS
Elad Ben-Israel - Co-Founder & CEO at Wing & Creator of the AWS CDK
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

RESOURCES
Adam
https://x.com/realadamjkeller
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkeller
https://github.com/adamjkeller
http://cdk.live

Elad
https://x.com/emeshbi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hackingonstuff
https://wing.cloud

Eric
https://twitter.com/edjgeek
https://linkedin.com/in/singledigit
https://serverlessland.com

DESCRIPTION
Eric Johnson and technologists Adam Keller and Elad Ben-Israel explore the evolution of cloud development, discussing the transition from traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to more integrated approaches like Infrastructure Plus Code.

Elad, creator of the AWS CDK, and Adam Keller, senior technologist at AWS, look at how tools like the CDK and new languages like Wing are bridging the gap between infrastructure and application development. They emphasize the importance of opinionated frameworks that offer flexibility and customization, addressing challenges in cloud adoption and highlighting the need for clearer abstractions to empower developers and streamline operations. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

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