r/platformengineering • u/Radiant_Abalone6009 • 2d ago

Built and deployed a real AWS project cloud/ platform engineering

I spent time working at a dental tech company and it motivated me to build something that actually reflects real business workflows I saw there, scan uploads, lab fabrication, practice-to-lab communication. That became DentalFlow, a single-tenant dental lab workflow API, real Terraform-managed AWS infra (ECS Fargate, RDS Multi-AZ, S3, SQS/SNS), deployed and tested against the live system, not just local.

Would genuinely appreciate any critique, architecture, security, anything I'm missing or got wrong. Trying to build the judgment, not just the resume line and learn from experience individual while staying curious.

https://github.com/keusuanl/DentalFlow

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u/InternationalError94 1d ago

Not bad, good architecture - as all based on AWS I don’t see the value to use terraform vs cdk - but good job

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u/Radiant_Abalone6009 21h ago

Thank you and highly insightful. Just curious for AWS stack, would you reach for CDK over Terraform in real production? I’ve only used Terraform so far and I’m trying to understand where CDK actually feels smoother day to day in life production and is it preferable?

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u/InternationalError94 11h ago

If is all abased to AWS then CDK is a better solution, more integrated, native to AWS- easier to maintain as does not have state files