Episode 029 - Real World CDK with Matt Coulter

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Matt Coulter, Senior Architect at Liberty IT. Matt is a well-known helper and educator in the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) developer community. In addition to his work at Liberty IT, Matt is also an AWS DevTools Hero, and organizer of many community events. Matt shares his journey to the cloud, building CDK Patterns, writing the new CDK Book, and offers insights into deploying CDK within a large company. There may be some special announcements around the next CDK Day as well! Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NIDeveloper Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nideveloper/ Matt’s Blog: https://www.matt-coulter.com/ CDK Patterns: https://www.cdkpatterns.com/ CDK Day: https://www.cdkday.com/ The CDK Book: https://thecdkbook.com/ Panel discussion on Serverless First at Liberty IT: https://www.liberty-it.co.uk/stories/articles/tomorrow-talks-how-build-serverless-first-developer-experience Liberty IT Case Study on AWS Architecture Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/liberty-it-adopts-serverless-best-practices-using-aws-cdk/ Liberty IT Case Study on AWS Open-Source Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/the-cdk-patterns-open-source-journey/ Official Liberty Mutual case study on AWS Solutions Site: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/liberty-mutual-case-study/ Video of Werner Talking about CDK Patterns https://youtu.be/AYYTrDaEwLs Case Study of Matt and Receiving the Now Go Build Award https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/liberty-mutual-2021-reinvent-video/ How AWS CDK Released this Architect from the Ivory Tower: https://www.matt-coulter.com/blog/post/2 Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aH