Engineering video
1:48 · 29 September 2026
Speakers discuss their preferred tools and languages, including deploying infrastructure through AWS CDK, working with Node.js and TypeScript, and enjoying React for front end development by combining visuals with logic.
Hear it at 0:05 →A developer mentions starting to use GitHub Copilot specifically for teaching and understanding how things work rather than having it do the work for them.
Hear it at 1:34 →Perfect. So, what's your favorite tool? favorite thing you use? Oh, favorite tool? I think it's more um just deploying the infrastructure through AWS CDK. I just love using it. It's just infrastructure is gold. amazing, right? It's amazing. It's got a lot. Node.js. I like everything Node.js back. No. Node with TypeScript or JavaScript? I guess um TypeScript, definitely. Awesome. So more of a back end guy, I would say.
More of a back end, yeah. Hopefully. Uh, I still love working with React because I think that's the technology I've had most experience with. So whenever I have to do any front end work, I will always do it. And really handwritten. Yeah, because I just enjoy it. It feels effortless to me. Um, so I guess that's that's why we are. The longer I've gone in my career, the more I've become language agnostic. So it's all the same really.
The same patterns, come up again, come up again wherever you work. My favorite tool, I think is uh is React. I like it a lot, but I I'm working at now I was play rate. So it's like um, I don't know, like more into front end stuff, but but yeah, I I like a lot of React. A lot of people hate on, but I love it too. I love it. Yeah, I like it. Because it's like you have uh you have to paint stuff in the in the in the in the browser, but also you can apply a lot of logic.
No, this's also fun. Uh, but I don't know. I I like the visual parts. So it's like combining visuals with logic. I I think it's it's kind of fun. Kind of bringing together. You're like you can you can get visual feedback, right? When you're building. Yes, exactly. I'm starting to like more um co-pilot. for teaching me. Not doing it for me, but teaching me, like why why does this do this and why does this how did this promise work?
