AWS CDK - Best Practices From The Trenches
summary
Shows a concrete case: a serverless audit POC built in 3 days to build a serverless audit POC connecting IoT Kinesis Lambdas API Gateway OpenSearch and S3, plus patterns for splitting stacks and constructs, CI/CD with Jenkins profiles, and config knobs like DynamoDB point-in-time recovery and retain policies. Covers safety tools: CDK nag security checks, CDK diff, unit infra tests, and an open source AWS Lambda Handler Cookbook with AppConfig feature flags. Watch if you want actionable recipes and exact tools.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00AWS CDK best practices intro
- 2:21CDK app and stack design
- 5:09Project structure templates
- 9:22Construct guidelines patterns
- 12:15Splitting apps into constructs
- 14:41CI/CD pipelines multi-account
- 17:07Security secrets resources
- 18:55CDK Nag security compliance
- 20:20Least-privilege IAM policies
- 21:44Resilience logical ID management
- 23:50CDK diff backup strategies
- 24:52CDK dev tips tags
- 26:40Summary closing
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