Adam Jacob on Why Scaling Is ‘The Funnest Game’

“There’s no funner game than the at-scale technology game. But if you play it, some people will hate you for it. That’s OK … that’s the game you chose to play.” — Adam Jacob

At Monster Scale Summit 2025, Rachel Stephens, research director at RedMonk, spoke with Adam Jacob, co-founder of Chef and CEO of System Initiative, about what it really means to build and operate software at scale.

Monster SCALE Summit 2026 will go live March 11-12, featuring antirez, creator of Redis; Camille Fournier, author of “The Manager’s Path”…