An opinionated, enterprise-grade framework for building cloud-native serverless applications on AWS. It is a decision framework, not just documentation: it tells you what to build with, how to structure code, how to deploy safely, how to govern at scale, and how to develop with AI.

Published site: the documentation is built with Zensical and published to GitHub Pages via .github/workflows/docs.yml. The canonical source for every chapter lives in docs/ — start at docs/index.md.

cloud-native-framework/
├── docs/                 # ← single source of truth (all chapters + index.md)
│   ├── index.md          # navigation hub with diagrams and "start here" guide
│   └── NN-*.md           # 35 chapters
├── zensical.toml         # site config + authoritative navigation ordering
├── .github/workflows/    # docs.yml → builds docs/ and deploys to GitHub Pages
└── README.md             # this file

The chapter files live only in docs/. Edit them there — the site build (zensical build) consumes docs/ exclusively.

pip install zensical
zensical serve       # hot-reload preview at http://localhost:8000
zensical build       # static site → site/

The chapters below follow the curated learning path defined in zensical.toml. Every link points into docs/.

Express mode completes stack operations as soon as resource configuration is applied — without waiting for full stabilization — cutting deployment times by up to 4×. This closed the single biggest gap that pushed teams from CDK/SAM toward SST/Pulumi/Terraform, making the entire CloudFormation ecosystem competitive on speed.

See CloudFormation Express for the deep dive and Infrastructure as Code for how it reshapes tool selection.

• Edit chapters in docs/ only — never re-create root copies.
• Keep the navigation in zensical.toml and the index in docs/index.md in sync when adding or renaming a chapter.
• Prefer Zensical's auto-generated table of contents over hand-maintained in-page TOCs.
• Preview locally with zensical serve before opening a pull request.