Goodbye YAML: Infrastructure as Code in Clojure - Eno Compton & Tyler van Hensbergen

Key Takeaways

• The speakers are from a company that uses AWS and has adopted the AWS Cloud Developer Kit (CDK) for managing infrastructure.
• CDK is a higher-level concern than YAML, allowing for more concise and productive infrastructure management.
• The company has written a library in TypeScript that uses CDK under the hood, and has found it to be a significant improvement over using YAML.
• CDK provides a set of infrastructure constructs that can be composed together to create complex infrastructure setups.
• The company uses Closure to solve real business problems and deploy them on AWS.
• CDK allows for easy reuse of infrastructure code, and provides good support for testing and debugging.
• The company has found that using CDK has allowed them to move away from slow and error-prone manual deployments, and has improved their overall developer experience.
• CDK is a complementary tool to other tools like Terraform, and can be used in conjunction with them.
• The company is excited about the potential of CDK and its ability to make infrastructure management more accessible and enjoyable for developers.