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by holoway 2y ago
This is a great question. Eventually, yes. In an earlier prototype of SI, we actually had this feature, and it was pretty dope. We removed it as we made things much more programmable, but it's high on the road map to bring back. The fi
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by holoway 2y ago
I think all great companies have names that are also great band names. System Initiative is a better band name than System-I. :)
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by holoway 2y ago
I don't think you're alone, and to be honest, I'm as suprised as anyone that it turned out to be better. We built a lot of different implementations on the way here, and all of the initial versions started with code and plain
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by holoway 2y ago
You can show up whenever you want to! Today it happens in the UI, but we could certainly send you a diff in your email at some point. :)
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by holoway 2y ago
You don't, because we built the functionality in to the data model - you can review changes (in multiplayer!) and automate things directly in the application. Usually when we're talking infrastructure code, you don't really r
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by holoway 2y ago
Think of it this way - if you want to "move off of terraform", you're existing IaC isn't useful either (because you need Terraform/OpenTofu to run it). SI is the same.
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by holoway 2y ago
It absolutely is. We're adding more resources all the time, we hang out in Discord and build the things folks need most. We're working on GCP now.
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by holoway 2y ago
You can export your workspace, and import it into another version of SI. But we aren't producing IaC under the hood - we have a high fidelity modeling layer, and then we allow you to program those models directly. But if you move off o
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by holoway 2y ago
Perhaps https://systeminit.com would make more sense. :)
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by holoway 2y ago
Hello! Adam from System Initiative here. Happy to answer any questions. :)
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by holoway 3y ago
Awful news. RIP Kris.
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by holoway 3y ago
Absolutely it will. Everything we write will be open sourced. All of it.
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by holoway 3y ago
Slave to the Grind, without question.
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by holoway 3y ago
One side effect of our design is that, once we bring more of the bi-directional capabilities back into the product - we can track the real-world resources as they change, and update the model on your behalf. So you can keep using (or start
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by holoway 3y ago
the ability to not have sandboxed local builds meant that it was easy for us to write the starlark/python code we needed to get things working in a rough way quickly, while correctness can come later.
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by holoway 3y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head with crossplane being a 'much better terraform' by design. Our goal isn't so much a better IaC / Declarative infrastructure tool - it's a better overall workflow for doing collab
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by holoway 3y ago
We've got a fairly large monorepo, with code primarily in Rust, Typescript and PgSQL. We wanted something that would scale as we grew into things like remote execution and build farms, but that would let us be pragmatic in the meantime
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by holoway 3y ago
It's very early - it doesn't do much yet (but what it does do is compelling!). There isn't a ton of documentation, but we have put a lot of real user research into things. 1. Authentication works through Auth0. We're bui
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by holoway 3y ago
Skepticism here is warranted - the history of things that look like this in our space isn't fantastic. We've put a lot of engineering into trying to create something that is a power tool, and flexible enough to solve hard real wor
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by holoway 3y ago
Yep. If you go to https://systeminit.com and click "Sign up", you can use our launcher to run a build directly.
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by holoway 3y ago
We've been planning to open source it this way for the better part of a year. It just so happened that we were ready to open it up right after the Hashicorp folks made their decision. No intentional timing. You can see more on our appr
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by holoway 3y ago
Hey - CEO here. Happy to answer questions if y'all have any.
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Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale(substrate.tools)
322 points by holoway 3y ago|152 comments
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by holoway 3y ago
Reset is a fabulous human.
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by holoway 3y ago
It’s too early to know with real data. Architecturally, it should scale - but you know it’s going to need optimization when we start getting into high numbers.
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by holoway 3y ago
Nothing about SI is intended to make ops a commodity. This is a power tool built by Ops people.
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by holoway 3y ago
If you want to know more about some of the technical details, we wrote something up: https://www.systeminit.com/blog-five-breakthroughs
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by holoway 3y ago
This is a reasonable reaction! :) There are a lot of ways to make the visual interface scale - examples from things like Blender, Figma, etc. We believe we can use them to make it scale semantically as the complexity climbs.
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by holoway 3y ago
Hi! Adam Jacob here. Happy to answer questions!
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by holoway 6y ago
I think it’s inefficient, in a market sense - for the reasons I explained above. All the source available companies we mentioned did that after they got the lift from the open source channel, and the lift from a competitive service. In th

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