https://blog.rickwaterman.com/tags/cdk/Recent content in Cdk on BlogHugoen-USTue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/vercel-is-great-for-frontend-teams/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/vercel-is-great-for-frontend-teams/Vercel’s developer experience is the best in the business, and for a frontend team without cloud depth it is the right call. But if your organization already has AWS CDK or Terraform specialization, you are paying a markup on Lambda and CloudFront for an abstraction you do not need, with spend controls that lag, private networking behind an Enterprise contract, and a self-hosting story that has finally caught up.https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/its-all-just-aws-under-the-hood/Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/its-all-just-aws-under-the-hood/Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Heroku, Render, PlanetScale: open their region docs and you find AWS region codes. The platforms are thin layers over primitives you can learn directly. Deep AWS specialization — with real fluency in CDK and Terraform — is not narrowing. It is the thing that lets you use any of them, and leave any of them.