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Discussion on: Stop using a local environment to develop Serverless applications

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Corentin Doue

cdk --watch improves a lot the developer experience with a fully remote development environment. It automates the deployment for you. However, you still need to wait for the deployment of your lambdas each time you want to test it. Executing your lambdas locally in integration with remote services speeds up the feedback loop.

As for AWS SAM and docker I never used them together