• Writing Code About Your Infrastructure? That's a Losing Race

  • Feb 13 2025
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Writing Code About Your Infrastructure? That's a Losing Race

  • Summary

  • Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative, discusses a shift in infrastructure automation—moving from writing code to building models that enable rapid simulations and collaboration. In The New Stack Makers, he compares this approach to Formula One racing, where teams use high-fidelity models to simulate race conditions, optimizing performance before hitting the track.

    System Initiative applies this concept to enterprise automation, creating a model that understands how infrastructure components interact. This enables fast, multiplayer feedback loops, simplifying complex tasks while enhancing collaboration. Engineers can extend the system by writing small, reactive JavaScript functions that automate processes, such as transforming existing architectures into new ones. The platform visually represents these transformations, making automation more intuitive and efficient.

    By leveraging models instead of traditional code-based infrastructure management, System Initiative enhances agility, reduces complexity, and improves DevOps collaboration. To explore how this ties into the concept of the digital twin, listen to the fullNew Stack Makers episode.

    Learn more from The New Stack about System Initiative:

    Beyond Infrastructure as Code: System Initiative Goes Live

    How System Initiative Treats AWS Components as Digital Twins

    System Initiative Code Now Open Source

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