Building a Serverless Compute Platform with AWS and TypeScript

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A four‑person team builds a serverless compute platform in weeks not years, letting customers upload arbitrary TypeScript/JavaScript functions and invoke them with JSON events. Code and metadata live in S3 and DynamoDB, deployment uses AWS CDK, and runtime isolation uses vm2 + worker threads (via frets.js) with hard timeouts and killed workers to avoid event‑loop blocking. Execution runs in a separate AWS account with minimal permissions. Frontend uses Monaco editor plus ESLint and Prettier to prevent bad saves.

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1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
2. 2:28Speaker introduction and EDI context
3. 7:45Why TypeScript for full stack
4. 11:17System architecture overview
5. 15:27Security and isolation strategies
6. 19:57Runtime sandboxing and worker threads
7. 22:02Frontend and code editor setup
8. 26:15Key takeaways and recommendations

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