Revolutionizing DevOps with System Initiative | Episode #92
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
System Initiative is set to change DevOps automation. Focusing on real-time simulations, digital twins, and collaborative infrastructure management, System Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to managing complex cloud environments, solving challenges like stack drift, feedback delays, and cumbersome DevOps workflows.
In Episode 92 of Great Things with Great Tech, Adam Jacob, co-founder and CEO of System Initiative, shares insights on his journey from creating Chef to building System Initiative. This groundbreaking platform allows engineers to model infrastructure with high fidelity, enabling real-time simulations, multiplayer collaboration, and safer, faster deployments. Adam explains how digital twins and the “Living Architecture” approach allow engineers to work collaboratively in a game-like environment, eliminating the slow feedback loops associated with traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Key Topics
- Adam Jacob’s Vision: From Chef to System Initiative and the Future of DevOps
- System Initiative Features: Digital twins, living architecture, and high-fidelity infrastructure modeling
- The “200% Problem”: Why high-level abstractions don’t always simplify DevOps, and how System Initiative tackles this with real-time infrastructure modeling
- Real-Time Collaboration: How System Initiative’s multiplayer interface redefines DevOps workflows
- Open Source Strategy: Why System Initiative is committed to transparency and accessibility in DevOps
- Future Roadmap: Plans to expand System Initiative to AWS, on-premises, and beyond
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| 0:00.0 | Adam Jacob, the creator of Chef and one of the pioneers of infrastructure's code is back with |
| 0:05.0 | something new. System Initiative offers real-time simulations, digital twins and collaborative |
| 0:11.5 | infrastructure management that goes beyond IAC's limitations. Today we're talking with Adam to understand |
| 0:17.0 | the technical challenges that led to this evolution and how system initiative is changing |
| 0:21.5 | the way engineers approach cloud infrastructure. Today we're talking with Adam to understand |
| 0:25.6 | the technical challenges that led to this evolution and how system initiative is changing the way |
| 0:31.0 | engineers approach cloud infrastructure. Let's explore what's next for DevOps. And don't forget to hit |
| 0:36.5 | that subscribe alert and like button on YouTube. |
| 0:39.6 | Also follow GTWGT on all podcast platforms of choice. |
| 0:44.2 | And now, episode 92, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder of System Initiative. |
| 0:53.4 | Hey, Adam, welcome to the show. |
| 0:55.1 | So just as a massive fan of automation in general, from my perspective, it's great to |
| 1:00.2 | have you on. |
| 1:01.2 | Let's start about your background because it's super interesting for people that obviously |
| 1:05.7 | don't know, but they should know. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, you're the founder of chef, which is just like God likes status in this industry. |
| 1:11.2 | And thank you for all the work that you've, yeah, thank you for all the work that you've done |
| 1:15.2 | to, you know, get that DevOps message out there and automation in general. |
| 1:18.9 | It's been a great right to say that. |
| 1:21.7 | Tell us about your background. |
| 1:23.0 | How did you start, like, you know, it goes far back as you want in terms of your own |
| 1:26.5 | background and computers and how you got to kind of love automation yeah i mean the the lDR is that i've kind of always been |
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