In this episode Dave chats with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part one of this two-part conversation, Elad talks about his time as a software engineer at Amazon, the creation of the Cloud Development Kit, and the philosophy behind JSII, a new framework that allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes.

Elad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emeshbi
Elad’s GitHub.io: https://eladb.github.io/
AWS CDK Git: https://bit.ly/3yB3kWS
CDK Patterns: https://cdkpatterns.com/
CDK 2.0 Dev Preview: https://amzn.to/3dW57Oq
CDK Corner: https://amzn.to/3ho1B1r
CDK Labs: https://github.com/cdklabs/
JSII Git: https://github.com/aws/jsii
The story behind the AWS CDK: https://amzn.to/3xug6GI

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