The diagram IS the code

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.

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Sponsors:

• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.
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• Bitwarden – Secrets management for developers. Leverage trusted open source technology to securely store and manage infrastructure secrets. Bitwarden empowers developers to safely inject secrets into code and prevent costly data breaches with ease.

Featuring:

• John Watson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Scott Prutton – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• System Initiative

Book recommendations

• A Mind for Numbers
• Dark Wire
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Where Good Ideas Come From

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:00:53)

https://cronitor.io

3. The opener (00:03:50)

4. Scott & John's roles (00:06:25)

5. What is System Initiative? (00:07:18)

6. How to do System Initiative on-prem (00:08:50)

7. Where is it stopping? (00:10:02)

8. How did we get here? (00:12:35)

9. Self-hosted SaaS (00:15:11)

10. From architect to engineer (00:17:28)

11. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:18:45)

https://coder.com/

12. Excitement to come (00:22:28)

13. Surprises while building (00:23:22)

14. Proving the source of truth (00:24:21)

15. Everything changes (00:27:11)

16. Keeping it secure (00:34:36)

17. Things in order (00:39:05)

18. Go try it (00:47:54)

19. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:49:51)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

20. The closer (00:52:18)

21. Longer reads (00:58:30)

22. Outro (01:21:03)