CDK constructs are a great way to combine best practices and simplify your infrastructure code. Have you ever written your own CDK construct? Writing a construct is easy using the CDK CLI. But soon you’ll discover the hard parts: Keeping all dependencies updated; Aligning the CDK dependency versions to not have version conflicts; And publishing […]
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Serverless sending and receiving e-mails using AWS is not fun in my opinion. AWS offers Simple Email Service (SES) to achieve this. But the UI and also Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support is lacking. You often need to manually change settings which is error prone. When I recently built another landing page for myself, I
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Have you ever tried to publish a CDK construct that was using a Lambda function, for example to create a custom resource or provide a REST API endpoint? It’s relatively easy to publish your construct if your Lambda function is just using the AWS SDK. But it gets more complicated as soon as other dependencies
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