Adam Jacob

Yeah. Oh, I'm stoked. We did. Yeah, we launched something on the 25th of September. And yeah, you can use System Initiative now by going to a website and signing up. And three clicks and you're in. And then you can automate infrastructure. It's sick. It's the coolest thing in the universe. I'm so proud of it.

Yeah. Oh, I'm stoked. We did. Yeah, we launched something on the 25th of September. And yeah, you can use System Initiative now by going to a website and signing up. And three clicks and you're in. And then you can automate infrastructure. It's sick. It's the coolest thing in the universe. I'm so proud of it.

Yeah. I mean, that's what I hope is true. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, that's what I hope is true. Okay.

i think look i here's here's what it is we figured out part of the reason that it's so hard for us to achieve the outcomes we're looking to achieve with the kind of devops and operational work that we do is because the tools we're using bring about those tough outcomes it's a lot harder to like write static code have your friends review it in system initiative what you do is you use this like living architecture diagram

i think look i here's here's what it is we figured out part of the reason that it's so hard for us to achieve the outcomes we're looking to achieve with the kind of devops and operational work that we do is because the tools we're using bring about those tough outcomes it's a lot harder to like write static code have your friends review it in system initiative what you do is you use this like living architecture diagram

to put together all the different relationships between the things that you use. And then you can program that architecture diagram to do all the stuff you needed to do. So it automatically understands how to do things like create resources and delete them or update their tags or do those things. But then you can also extend it with your own custom policy.

to put together all the different relationships between the things that you use. And then you can program that architecture diagram to do all the stuff you needed to do. So it automatically understands how to do things like create resources and delete them or update their tags or do those things. But then you can also extend it with your own custom policy.

And the whole thing happens in real time in multiplayer. So you actually get to hang out with people again and build infrastructure and see what's happening and see it evolve over time. That's a pretty transformational change in how people spend their day. And we think that's the biggest thing that's going to level people up is that suddenly they get to actually do it together again.

And the whole thing happens in real time in multiplayer. So you actually get to hang out with people again and build infrastructure and see what's happening and see it evolve over time. That's a pretty transformational change in how people spend their day. And we think that's the biggest thing that's going to level people up is that suddenly they get to actually do it together again.

It's taken us five years to build it, and there's a couple of reasons for that period of time. What we wanted was an order of magnitude better experience than what you could have doing it with the existing tooling. And the existing tooling is pretty good. If you think about trying to be an order of magnitude better, there's just a lot you have to account for.

It's taken us five years to build it, and there's a couple of reasons for that period of time. What we wanted was an order of magnitude better experience than what you could have doing it with the existing tooling. And the existing tooling is pretty good. If you think about trying to be an order of magnitude better, there's just a lot you have to account for.

It's taken us five years to build it, and there's a couple of reasons for that period of time. What we wanted was an order of magnitude better experience than what you could have doing it with the existing tooling. And the existing tooling is pretty good. If you think about trying to be an order of magnitude better, there's just a lot you have to account for.

I like to think about software development a little more like art than like science. Like it's a thing that we're creating because that's what we want to see. And then we're observing how other people react to it. And it's in that conversation that the art shapes itself.

I like to think about software development a little more like art than like science. Like it's a thing that we're creating because that's what we want to see. And then we're observing how other people react to it. And it's in that conversation that the art shapes itself.

I like to think about software development a little more like art than like science. Like it's a thing that we're creating because that's what we want to see. And then we're observing how other people react to it. And it's in that conversation that the art shapes itself.

And so the first MVPs of System Initiative started with trying to build systems where we could infer as much about the infrastructure as possible. My name is Adam Jacob. I'm the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative.

And so the first MVPs of System Initiative started with trying to build systems where we could infer as much about the infrastructure as possible. My name is Adam Jacob. I'm the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative.

And so the first MVPs of System Initiative started with trying to build systems where we could infer as much about the infrastructure as possible. My name is Adam Jacob. I'm the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative.

What System Initiative is, it's our attempt to rebuild the way that we do DevOps work. Part of my background in technology is once upon a time I wrote a thing called Chef, which did configuration management. Tools like Chef and Puppet and Ansible created a lot of the modern automation that we all use now. So they were like the precursors to things like Terraform and that sort of thing, Kubernetes.