SLE 2024 paper:
Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure from Code: An Empirical Study

Georg Simhandl, Uwe Zdun

DOI: 10.1145/3687997.3695643
T5E: Empirical Evaluation
- The paper is primarily an empirical study assessing productivity/efficacy of infrastructure-from-code approaches.
T5H: Usability
- It evaluates usability for (novice) developers and developer-experience implications of different approaches.
T2D: Deployment
- The subject matter is cloud deployment and provisioning, comparing language vs SDK approaches to infrastructure.
T3F: API
- Infrastructure-from-code solutions are positioned as SDK/APIs that abstract cloud resources programmatically.

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