From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) (Interview)

从厨师到系统推动者(重制版)(访谈)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2025-08-22

2 小时 22 分钟
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The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up and enjoy.
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  • Well, friends, it's your favorite podcast, The Changelog, and we remastered The Adam Jacobs Show.

  • Yes,

  • the epic two-hour show I did with Adam is now remastered and full-length video available on YouTube.

  • Check it out, youtube.com slash changelog.

  • This show with Adam Jacobs goes deep into his history, deep into Chef.

  • Some emotions come out, but in the end, System Initiative is here.

  • And I hope you enjoy it.

  • A massive thank you to our friends and our partners at fly.io.

  • That is the home of changelog.com.

  • Learn more at fly.io.

  • Okay, here's Adam Jacob.

  • what's up friends i'm here with kyle galbraith co-founder and ceo of depot depot is the only build platform looking to make your builds as fast as possible but kyle this is an issue

  • because github actions is the number one ci provider out there but not everyone's a fan explain that i think when you're thinking about github actions It's really quite jarring how you can have such a wildly popular CI provider,

  • and yet it's lacking some of the basic functionality or tools that you need to actually be able to debug your builds or deployments.

  • And so back in June,

  • we essentially took a stab at that problem in particular with Depot's GitHub Action Runners.

  • What we've observed over time is effectively GitHub Actions,

  • when it comes to actually debugging a build, is pretty much useless.

  • Job logs in GitHub Actions UI is pretty much where your dreams go to die.

  • Like they're collapsed by default.