During a keynote at re:Invent 2022 today, Amazon announced CodeCatalyst, a service designed to take away the heavy lifting of working across different codebases, tools and environments to build apps. Based on the concept of blueprints, CodeCatalyst — currently in preview — provides a “single place” developers can use to create an app on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said onstage.
“CodeCatalyst makes it very easy for you to switch between [different app development] environments” while creating an app, Vogels said. “You can populate a project with code and dependencies and you can use your favorite [integrated development environment].”
It’s true that, with the widespread shift to digital begun during the pandemic, app developers are facing increased pressure from clients to build faster. Disparate, disorganized tools app...
