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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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!

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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)