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by JohnScolaro 457 days ago
I recently made a serverless lambda/dynamo webapp following similar patterns and wrote about the experience here: https://johnscolaro.xyz/blog/serverless-python-websites

I think it's amazing the python community has like 5 half baked solutions to this problem, all of which are either abandoned, poorly monetized, or have a janky UI. I mean we have: Zappa, Chalice, Serverless, and if you attempt to do it yourself, do you use Cloudformation, CDK, or AWS SAM?

Following with interest, I think there is room for better tool in this space.

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Nice writing and summary there. As an author of stelvio I felt the same. It's not that there're no tools. But none of them is covering enough AWS surface while being truly focused on Python devs. Some are general infra tools (CDK, Pulumi) focused on infra people, where python is not primary language, some are Python tools like Chalice (likely abandonded) and some are meant for Python devs but use json (Zappa).

I wrote my own thinking here https://blog.stelvio.dev/why-i-am-building-stelvio/

I 'm working hard on Stelvio hoping it can become the best tool to do infra in Python.

Btw. If you'd be willing to share more details about what you want/miss in python cloud tooling could you drop me an email at michal at stelvio.dev ? I'm happy to talk. Applies to other interested people too!