Infrastructure from Code (IfC)

Infrastructure from Code is a radically different approach that makes building scalable apps in the cloud ridiculously easy! The three core tenets of IfC are:

IfC lets developers leverage their existing programming skills, allowing them to focus on writing business logic instead of learning and configuring constantly evolving cloud services. IfC provides a translation layer that automatically enables cloud best practices while making developers hyperproductive.

For example, the following sample IfC implementation...

import { api, data, events } from '@some-ifc-sdk'
api.post("/users", async (req, res) => {
  const { email, name } = req.body;
  const newUser = await data.set(`user:${email}`, { email, name });
  res.send({ user: newUser });
});
data.on("created:user:*", ({ item }) => {
	console.log("New user created!");
	events.publish("user.created", { after: "1 day" } item)
});
events.on("user.created", (event) => {
	console.log('user.created event received!');
	// Send a follow up email, call an API, etc.
})

...when deployed to AWS, would automatically provision and configure the following resources...

...including mapping IAM permissions between services.

“

Programming languages and cloud infrastructure will converge in a single paradigm: where all resources required will be automatically provisioned, and optimized by the environment that runs it.

~ Shawn "swyx" Wang