https://ferkakta.dev/tags/career/Recent content in Career on ferkakta.devHugoen-USCopyright fizz.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0500https://ferkakta.dev/cloudformation-frontends/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:00 -0500https://ferkakta.dev/cloudformation-frontends/<p>I was reading a job description that wanted CloudFormation experience, and I had the thought that derails the actual task: I&rsquo;ve spent my entire career using tools that compile down to CloudFormation and don&rsquo;t mention it until something breaks. I&rsquo;ve just never framed it that way.</p> <p>My career is a parade of progressively nicer frontends for the same underlying control plane — but one at a time.</p> <p>The first one was the AWS console. Click, wait, refresh, click. Then CloudFormation itself, which was an improvement in the way that a paper map is an improvement over asking for directions — technically correct, nearly unusable in practice. Then Serverless Framework, which promised to abstract the whole stack into a YAML file and a deploy command. Then Terraform, which promised cloud-agnostic infrastructure as code with a state model that actually worked.</p>