In this episode, Dave chats with Matteo Rinaudo, a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS CloudFormation (CFN). Matteo walks through his career start, the beginnings of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), why CloudFormation is useful for developers, and the recent launch of CloudFormation Hooks. CloudFormation Hooks is a new way to create executable custom logic that will automatically inspect your cloud resources before provisioning. Matteo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrinaudo Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev AWS CloudFormation: https://go.aws/3zgjyZ7 AWS CloudFormation CLI: https://go.aws/3Mi7Ujw AWS CloudFormation Quotas: https://go.aws/3ayBa8l AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide: https://go.aws/3NTZeRo CloudFormation Hooks Examples: https://bit.ly/3Q2s6Zy Additional CloudFormation Hooks Java and Python Examples: https://bit.ly/3MgI4fC Flake8 for Python Style Guide Enforcement: https://flake8.pycqa.org/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss