Adam Jacob

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.

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.

My title is CEO, but in reality, I love building infrastructure and I love building tools for people who build infrastructure. System Initiative is our attempt to think about what would be a truly massive leap forward in the user experience of building and maintaining these complex infrastructure and application platforms.

My title is CEO, but in reality, I love building infrastructure and I love building tools for people who build infrastructure. System Initiative is our attempt to think about what would be a truly massive leap forward in the user experience of building and maintaining these complex infrastructure and application platforms.

My title is CEO, but in reality, I love building infrastructure and I love building tools for people who build infrastructure. System Initiative is our attempt to think about what would be a truly massive leap forward in the user experience of building and maintaining these complex infrastructure and application platforms.

We started about five years ago, and the big difference is basically rather than thinking about all of the software, that the way that we do it now is we have a bunch of different tools that get glued together across the stack, right? So you've got source control and you've got a little bit of automation. Maybe you use Terraform, maybe you use Ansible, maybe you use Chef.

We started about five years ago, and the big difference is basically rather than thinking about all of the software, that the way that we do it now is we have a bunch of different tools that get glued together across the stack, right? So you've got source control and you've got a little bit of automation. Maybe you use Terraform, maybe you use Ansible, maybe you use Chef.

We started about five years ago, and the big difference is basically rather than thinking about all of the software, that the way that we do it now is we have a bunch of different tools that get glued together across the stack, right? So you've got source control and you've got a little bit of automation. Maybe you use Terraform, maybe you use Ansible, maybe you use Chef.

Maybe you use GitHub and then you use maybe GitHub Actions and GitLab and CI and all this stuff. And you cobble together your pipelines, put together some shape of stuff, and you try to automate all of this work. In truth, though, doing that is pretty not only hard, but the experience of doing it isn't very good.

Maybe you use GitHub and then you use maybe GitHub Actions and GitLab and CI and all this stuff. And you cobble together your pipelines, put together some shape of stuff, and you try to automate all of this work. In truth, though, doing that is pretty not only hard, but the experience of doing it isn't very good.

Maybe you use GitHub and then you use maybe GitHub Actions and GitLab and CI and all this stuff. And you cobble together your pipelines, put together some shape of stuff, and you try to automate all of this work. In truth, though, doing that is pretty not only hard, but the experience of doing it isn't very good.

So if you ask people who are great at it, like how they feel about their tools, they're proud of them because they work. But the experience of doing it is let's just call it suboptimal. And so what System Initiative does is basically transforms all that stuff up into data rather than code and then takes all of that information and tries to model the world as it is one to one.

So if you ask people who are great at it, like how they feel about their tools, they're proud of them because they work. But the experience of doing it is let's just call it suboptimal. And so what System Initiative does is basically transforms all that stuff up into data rather than code and then takes all of that information and tries to model the world as it is one to one.

So if you ask people who are great at it, like how they feel about their tools, they're proud of them because they work. But the experience of doing it is let's just call it suboptimal. And so what System Initiative does is basically transforms all that stuff up into data rather than code and then takes all of that information and tries to model the world as it is one to one.

So we build these digital twins of all your digital assets. And then we use that data and we stick it on this big hypergraph of functions. So think of each property of each thing you need to configure or each thing you want to manage or each application you want to describe or whatever it is you need to model.

So we build these digital twins of all your digital assets. And then we use that data and we stick it on this big hypergraph of functions. So think of each property of each thing you need to configure or each thing you want to manage or each application you want to describe or whatever it is you need to model.

So we build these digital twins of all your digital assets. And then we use that data and we stick it on this big hypergraph of functions. So think of each property of each thing you need to configure or each thing you want to manage or each application you want to describe or whatever it is you need to model.

And each of those properties is the result of a reactive function that takes other properties as inputs. If I say that this load balancer is configured because it's going to load balance your application and your application exposes itself on a port number, I can use that port number as an input to setting the load balancer's pool up.

And each of those properties is the result of a reactive function that takes other properties as inputs. If I say that this load balancer is configured because it's going to load balance your application and your application exposes itself on a port number, I can use that port number as an input to setting the load balancer's pool up.

And each of those properties is the result of a reactive function that takes other properties as inputs. If I say that this load balancer is configured because it's going to load balance your application and your application exposes itself on a port number, I can use that port number as an input to setting the load balancer's pool up.