Its a mixture of hard to use and things seem to not work as expected.
For instance, I want to do multi region deploys for lambda, I can't just do a simultaneous push to deploy across regions. I'm expected to use this messy switch[0] between the CLI and the CDK to do anything useful. This is a tiny example.
Not to mention the CDK packages have no comments in the shipped files (at least for typescript) so I can't even introspect the typings and try to understand the purpose of things. The documentation is atrocious.
Consider instead Firebase, Supabase or Fly.io, which are dead simple to use.
Developer Experience needs a major overhaul. It should be as easy or easier as Supabase or Firebase. No, Amplify is not a solution, its too buggy and has zero margin for customization plus, its local dev experience is quite bad
It'll probably never happen though, because developers are just end users, not the true customer, the buyer (e.g. management) is. I think that's the real reason why these improvements languish
The person you're replying to was confused because you said "APIs and SDK" which clearly refers to the former, but then this followup post is referring to the latter. You can do everything with the SDK. The CDK is implemented on top of the SDK and cannot do everything.
no_wizard|2 years ago
For instance, I want to do multi region deploys for lambda, I can't just do a simultaneous push to deploy across regions. I'm expected to use this messy switch[0] between the CLI and the CDK to do anything useful. This is a tiny example.
Not to mention the CDK packages have no comments in the shipped files (at least for typescript) so I can't even introspect the typings and try to understand the purpose of things. The documentation is atrocious.
Consider instead Firebase, Supabase or Fly.io, which are dead simple to use.
Developer Experience needs a major overhaul. It should be as easy or easier as Supabase or Firebase. No, Amplify is not a solution, its too buggy and has zero margin for customization plus, its local dev experience is quite bad
It'll probably never happen though, because developers are just end users, not the true customer, the buyer (e.g. management) is. I think that's the real reason why these improvements languish
[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/deploying-aws-lambda-la...
electroly|2 years ago
https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/ https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/ etc.
Not this:
https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
The person you're replying to was confused because you said "APIs and SDK" which clearly refers to the former, but then this followup post is referring to the latter. You can do everything with the SDK. The CDK is implemented on top of the SDK and cannot do everything.