Building Stelvio: An Open Source Journey to Deploy Python to AWS

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Stelvio is an open-source, Python-only framework that maps application components (REST API, DynamoDB, Lambda) to AWS and generates automatic IAM and environment wiring so handlers access resources without manual config. Demo shows a one-command deploy and a dev mode where requests hit real AWS DNS but execute local code via an AppSync events channel. Project spends months on API design, targets a handful of pilot customers rather than broad market fit, and records only small GitHub bumps from a Hacker News spike.

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1. 0:00Stelvio and Python on AWS
2. 1:12AWS infrastructure challenges
3. 2:58From IaC to app frameworks
4. 4:42Stelvio’s infrastructure abstraction
5. 5:02Demo: REST API and DynamoDB
6. 9:09Stelvio’s dev mode
7. 10:46Linking and permissions
8. 12:10Why Stelvio is Python-only
9. 13:13Stelvio’s open-source journey
10. 15:18Market fit and pilot customers
11. 16:21Production users in open source
12. 16:43AI in Stelvio’s development
13. 17:46Q&A

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