Developer Tools

Question 1

why are developer tools important?

Answer 1

to accelerate the software development release cycle

Question 2

Cloud 9

Answer 2

web-based software development environment

• preconfigured the dev environment with the needed SDKs and libraries
• serverless

Question 3

Example use case for Cloud 9

Answer 3

Lambda

Question 4

Code Commit

Answer 4

source control system for git

similar to GitHub

Question 5

Code Build

Answer 5

allows you to build and test your application source code

• compiles source code and runs tests
• enables CI/CD
• produces build artifacts ready to be deployed

Question 6

Code Deploy

Answer 6

deploys code to EC2, Fargate, Lambda and on-premises servers

Question 7

How does Code Deploy help maintain application uptime?

Answer 7

with rolling deployments

Question 8

Code Pipeline

Answer 8

automates the software release process/automating deployments with a CI/CD pipeline

• quickly deliver new features and updates
• integrates with Code Build to run builds and unit tests
• integrates with Code Commit to retrieve Source code
• integrates with Code Deploy to deploy changes

Question 9

X-Ray

Answer 9

helps you debug production applications

• analyze & debug
• map application components
• view request flow end to end

Question 10

Example use case for X-Ray

Answer 10

trace calls to an RDS database