Serverless on AWS without infrastructure boilerplate

Building serverless applications on AWS is incredibly powerful, but the developer experience is often fragmented. To build a simple backend, you usually need to wire together API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge, IAM roles, and more. Even with tools like AWS CDK or Terraform, you still spend a significant amount of time defining infrastructure instead of focusing on application logic. I kept asking myself: What if you could define your entire serverless application in TypeScript — and let the infrastructure be generated automatically? That's why I built Lafken . Let's build something real Imagine you're building an order management system. You need: An API to create and query orders A queue to process payments asynchronously An event bus to notify other services when an order is placed A workflow to orchestrate the fulfillment process A table to store orders A bucket to store invoices A scheduled job to clean up expired orders In a traditional setup, you'