Explore the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Infrastructure as Code in this 23-minute conference talk from Node Congress 2021. Learn how to programmatically define cloud architecture using JavaScript and TypeScript, mitigating the complexity of CloudFormation templates. Discover the benefits of CDK projects, including repeatable deployments and drift detection, while gaining insights into CDK concepts such as apps, stacks, and environments. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates generating a CDK application, adding constructs to a stack, and navigating the app deployment lifecycle. Gain practical knowledge on synthesizing stacks, managing assets and bootstrapping, and cleaning up deployed resources. Conclude with an overview of the CDK CLI and additional resources to further your understanding of this powerful tool for cloud-native architectures.