Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin based. He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80's hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of which your host is very familiar. He also loves cats, and at one point, had a bengal, which is a cross between a tiger and a domestic cat.Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control.This is the creation story of System Initiative.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www.systeminit.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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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.
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.
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And today, how Adam Jacob is building a collaborative power tool for DevOps to remove the paper cuts and automate intelligently. This episode is sponsored by KiteWorks. Legacy managed file transfer tools lack proper security, putting sensitive data at risk. With KiteWorks MFT, companies can send automated or ad hoc files in a fully integrated, highly secure manner.
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With Ask ClearQuery, you can find valuable insights into your data using plain English. Don't miss the opportunity to simplify your data analytics with ClearQuery. Get started today at clearquery.io slash code story. Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives north of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin-based.
He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80s hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of which your host is very familiar. He also loves cats and at one point had a bangle, which is a cross between a tiger and a domestic cat.
Previously, Adam was a key contributor at Chef and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOps value with automated security and compliance.
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