a modern infrastructure as code framework

Who?

Felix Hähnel

  • Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 → Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 → USA 🇺🇸 (NY 🗽 → CO 🦬)
  • 2015 - 2024 at Atlassian (Bitbucket Data Center & Trello)
  • 2024 - (present) at Xeel, focused on building developer productivity tools

What?

Xeel

  • Tools for development teams, to boost and maintain developer productivity
  • SaaS application, allows for measuring version debt in your team's projects
  • Built on AWS, managed and deployed via sst

Why sst?

  • TypeScript
  • Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Hybrid Development Environments (partly local, partly cloud)
  • Built-in secrets and variable management, and linking/injection
  • Pre-built components for many common frameworks (NextJS, React, Remix, Nuxt, Astro, SvelteKit, TanStack, …)

sst architecture

  • Interface and tools on top of Pulumi
  • Compatible with Pulumi and Terraform providers
  • Multi-Cloud support
    • first-class support for AWS and CloudFlare
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Demo Time

Adding an AI Agent

What did we do?

  • Deployed a static site using S3 and CloudFront
  • Set up Route53 DNS to point to CloudFront distribution
  • Set up ElevenLabs, a custom third party service with secrets, and in-service artifacts

Thanks!

boulderjs.xeel-dev.com

xeel.dev