The 10-Minute Tax For many years, as a CDK developer, I'd run cdk synth , then cdk deploy , and then cross my fingers — either it deployed cleanly, or it failed somewhere in the middle of a CloudFormation run that had already been going for ten minutes: ❌ MyStack failed: UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/pahud/stop-waiting-10-minutes-to-fail-how-cdk-comprehensive-validation-catches-misconfigurations-before-1907)