AWS Serverless Microservices with Patterns and Best Practices - Introduction - Prerequisites and Tools

The video tutorial introduces the tools and prerequisites needed for developing the Solus ecommerce application on AWS. It outlines five main prerequisites: AWS account and user, AWS CLI, Node.js, AWS CDK toolkit, and an IDE like Visual Studio Code. The tutorial provides a brief overview of each prerequisite and promises detailed installation and configuration instructions in future videos.

Describe the role of Node.js in developing Lambda functions.

What is the function of the AWS CDK toolkit in application development?