Thursday, the day of the highly anticipated Dr. Werner Vogels keynote. On Wednesday I already heard about the fact that you would probably have to be in the queue around 6.30-7.00 am to be able to get into the keynote room. Because I did not sleep very well over the last couple of days I decided to take a bit of time in the morning to have breakfast in the Caesars Palace and watch the keynote from my hotel room before heading out for my first session of the day.
Day 2 ended with a great global AWS Community Builder mixer. On day 3 of re:invent I had to skip the opening keynote by Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian VP AI & Data, because I planned to start the day with “DAT404: Advanced data modelling with Amazon DynamoDB” by Alex DeBrie. Alex is a great speaker and author of the DynamoDB book, so I really wanted to attend this session in person. When I arrived at the session I quickly learned I wasn’t the only one skipping the keynote. The queue went around the corner, but luckily I had reserved a seat so I did not have to get into the Walk-up line.
Today was the second day of re:invent and the day was packed with exciting events. These days are full of sessions, social events and casual conversations at the Expo, Community Hub or just in line while waiting to get into a room.
Day 1 of AWS re:Invent just ended and I’m now writing this update while watching the replay of Monday Nights keynote with Peter DeSantis. I couldn’t attend the keynote due to a customer survey session, but I always enjoy the balance of in depth knowledge on the latest development in compute.
One of the first decisions you’ll need to make when working with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is choosing the language for writing your Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The CDK currently supports TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go. Over the past few years, I’ve worked with the CDK in Typescript, Python and Java. While there is ample information available online for TypeScript and Python, this post aims to share my experience using Java as the language of choice for the AWS CDK.