Biography

Ari works as a Solution Architect at Alma Media where his team builds APIs & services – that Alma’s high traffic websites use – with AWS serverless technologies and infrastructure as code mentality. CDK has been in production-use in their team now for over a year. Ari holds several cloud certifications and his current programming languages of choice are TypeScript & Go. On his free time Ari is a music lover who can’t live without Spotify and attends around 50 live concerts per year. To unwind he spends a lot of time in the Finnish countryside.

Talk

Infrastructure as an Actual Code with AWS CDK

Bringing a good developer experience into DevOps and infrastructure as code with AWS Cloud Development Kit. CDK is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure for AWS using familiar programming languages (such as TypeScript, Python or Java) and built-in abstractions. You can also develop your own abstractions or use open sourced ones. This talk will first introduce what CDK is about and then look into how it can help if working with multiple projects, multiple environments (including dynamic feature environments), multiple AWS accounts and in multiple programming languages. It will also show how to bring in good software development best practises like reusable components, versioned dependencies, unit & snapshot testing into infrastructure as code. It will also showcase how a developer can benefit from working in infrastructure code with a good editor support and tooling. Also it will showcase how CDK makes working with AWS IAM access control much easier, even for a developer who doesn’t necessarily deeply understand how IAM policies and roles work. Will contain live demos! This talk is heavily based on my experience of running serverless architectures with CDK in production for a year at Alma Media – a large media company in Finland.

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