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I'm currently working with the AWS CDK and the more I used it, the more I have the feeling tools like that could be the next big thing.

It's melting the walls between cloud infrastructure and application code and the fact that it does IaC with the same language I use to program web apps (JS/TS) plays an important role here.

I think, it's not 100% there yet, but it's on a good way.

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I spent a lot of time with CDK last year using Typescript. Very impressed with it and I have zero regrets after moving over our app's infrastructure to being deployed with it after 9 months in production.

I felt like being forced to use typed IaC helped me understand AWS API's and services themselves better.

While I'm not a big fan of some decisions the team made when building the CDK (the whole class/context stuff feels very un-javascript-y), it was the first project where I appreciated TypeScript over JavaScript.

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