Session abstract
What you’ll learn
For nearly two years, we’ve been building Stelvio, an open-source framework designed to let Python developers deploy applications to AWS without getting lost in infrastructure complexity. In this talk, we’ll go beyond the surface of "easy deployments" and dive into what it actually takes to build and maintain an open-source developer tool in the cloud-native ecosystem. We’ll share the real challenges: balancing abstraction with control, handling user expectations, and evolving a project in public. Along the way, we’ll unpack the internals of AWS serverless primitives and show how Stelvio builds on top of them. You’ll gain a clearer mental model of what’s happening under the hood when you "just deploy." Whether you’re building your own developer tooling, contributing to open source, or trying to make sense of AWS serverless, this session offers practical insights and hard-earned lessons from the journey.