Tag: Resources

Every Framework Everywhere All at Once

November 30, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Eliminating JS Framework Lock-in with Web Components? — Can you build an app where each component is using a different framework? Amazingly, yes. Web components aren’t new but are ‘having a moment’ and Jake demos an interesting, if contrived, use case. He explains: “Say you’re…

How to import existing resources into AWS CDK Stacks

September 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers have provisioned resources through the AWS Management Console or different Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and then started using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) in a later stage. After introducing AWS CDK into the architecture, you might want to import some…

10 ways to build applications faster with Amazon CodeWhisperer

April 26, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeWhisperer is a powerful generative AI tool that gives me coding superpowers. Ever since I have incorporated CodeWhisperer into my workflow, I have become faster, smarter, and even more delighted when building applications. However, learning to use any generative AI tool effectively requires a…

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

March 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources? The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions and makes it easy to discover and provision them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. In the past three months, we’ve added…

Validating OpenTelemetry Configuration Files with the otel-config-validator

February 22, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a secure production-ready distribution of OpenTelemetry (OTel) that allows for instrumentation and collecting of metrics and traces. The ADOT collector can…

Team Collaboration with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 16, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst enables teams to collaborate on features, tasks, bugs, and any other work involved when building software. CodeCatalyst was announced at re:Invent 2022 and is currently in preview. Introduction: In a prior post in this series, Using Workflows to Build, Test, and Deploy with…