A day in the life of a serverless developer on AWS

What do serverless developers do? Let’s talk about it.

In this article, we are going to talk about what a day in the life of a serverless developer on AWS looks like.

You may have thought that serverless developers strictly spend their days tweeting about the fall of containers and virtual machines, but I’m here to tell you that’s only about 2/3rds of the day 😅

This is not an extensive article and there are a slew of nuances with serverless development so treat this as a rough rule of thumb.

To kick things off, let’s talk about IAC.

Building IAC (Infrastructure as Code)

When it comes to serverless development, a large portion of your day will be spent writing IAC.

There are many popular frameworks such as:

• Serverless Framework and Serverless Components
• AWS SAM, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Stackery
• Terraform
• Architect

Each one of these frameworks has pros and cons, but they all shine in their own ways. Typically, for serverless focused IAC, a serverless developer will be working with one of the…