Driving Development Forward: How the PGA TOUR speeds up Development with the AWS CDK

The article discusses how the PGA TOUR used the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to accelerate development and delivery of their new mobile app and website. It highlights the key benefits they experienced:

Specifically, the article covers:

• The PGA TOUR's previous challenges with a monolithic architecture, requiring separate code bases for the website and mobile app, leading to long turnaround times for new features.
• How the TOUR adopted a microservices architecture using AWS services like AppSync, Lambda, Step Functions, and Batch, and how they leveraged the AWS CDK to simplify infrastructure provisioning and management.
• The benefits of using the AWS CDK, including empowering developers, enabling parallel environments for tournament preparation, allowing frequent releases and quick bug fixes, and simplifying IAM permission management.
• Lessons learned, such as finding the right granularity for their CDK stacks, and looking forward to reusing stacks and accelerating development across other departments.