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Kiro is an AI-powered IDE that enables small teams and individuals to achieve outcomes typically associated with larger organizations while maintaining architectural rigor, test coverage, and long-term maintainability. To be effective, Kiro requires deliberate guidance, thoughtful review, and a shift in mindset from ad-hoc coding to structured, specification-led development.

When building applications in AWS, it’s important to follow consistent practices that improve security, reliability, and maintainability. These guidelines apply to all developers working with cloud resources in our environment.

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Front end development at St. Thomas involves working across several frameworks and vendor platforms. When starting new projects, developers should choose the framework that best meets the long-term needs of maintainability, accessibility, security, and sustainability. By using modern build tools, maintaining version control, keeping packages up to date, and following standardized practices, developers create

AWS cloud development at St. Thomas focuses on using shared tools, serverless services, and automated workflows to create secure and maintainable applications. This article introduces the key practices, architectures, and resources that help developers build scalable solutions on a consistent foundation.

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GitHub repositories can be used for code and script examples, classes, collaboration, and version control of text-based files. Critical infrastructure, enterprise applications, and projects deployed to AWS should use CodeCommit.

Using NVM from the start can prevent headaches and frustration over compatibility issues when managing multiple scripts and projects that utilize various versions of Node.js.

Starting a new front-end development project, or even being tasked with improving an older one, can be daunting. This checklist will help you improve your starting point and advance projects through an iterative improvement process. Not everything will be perfect, but you can always leave it in better shape than you found it.

Starting a new back-end development project, or even being tasked with improving an older one, can be daunting. This checklist will help you improve your starting point and advance projects through an iterative improvement process. Not everything will be perfect, but you can always leave it in better shape than you found it.

When developing cloud applications in AWS, assign only the minimum necessary permissions for the application to perform its task, reducing the potential impact of security breaches. For example, do not grant your application full control of an S3 bucket or all S3 buckets if it only requires read permissions. Learn how to properly scope permissions for your application.

Whether using AI coding assistants for peer programming or vibe coding, it is essential to use the right tool for the task, set expectations and safeguards, and ensure that the generated code serves its purpose. If going into production, the generated code must be secure, reliable, and follow the cloud team's guidelines.

It is essential to provide documentation in your code repositories so that others know what the code does and how to use it. By understanding the power of Markdown for creating files such as README, CHANGELOG, and TODO you can ensure your code (and hard work) is helpful to others.

Git repositories are critical to storing, versioning, and sharing code. Understanding the basics of how Git is used at St. Thomas will ensure your projects meet proper standards and best practices, making it easier to maintain, document, share, and deploy projects.

Git is the source of truth for both application code and infrastructure. Every change must be version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed via automated pipelines.