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Armel Talla Is Building the Boring Layer Robots Cannot Scale Without
Before Miru, Armel Talla turned a dorm-room podcast problem into a product used by thousands - then opened the code and started again. Now he and the same college friends are building the quiet control layer behind fleets of working robots.
Adam Jacob
Adam Jacob is the co-founder of Chef (the infrastructure automation company acquired for $220M) and current CEO of System Initiative, a next-generation DevOps platform using digital twins to visually model and simulate infrastructure. A self-taught systems engineer who ran ISPs as a teenager and built automated infrastructure for 15 startups before co-founding Opscode/Chef in 2008, Jacob created the Chef, InSpec, and Habitat open-source tools that helped define the DevOps movement. Today he advocates for rebuilding DevOps from the ground up, arguing that tooling and culture must evolve together - and that Infrastructure as Code, as practiced, is still broken.