---
title: "Alchemy and the next generation of infrastructure as code"
description: "Sam Goodwin describes Alchemy's stateful TypeScript model for infrastructure resources."
group: source
speaker: "Sam Goodwin"
date: 2025-04-14
url: https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk
sources:
  - https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk
---

# Alchemy and the next generation of infrastructure as code

Sam argues that infrastructure tools have accumulated layers around provider APIs. Alchemy reduces the resource model to stateful TypeScript functions with create, update, delete, tests, consistency checks, and idempotent recovery. [04:09](https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk?t=249) [06:01](https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk?t=361) [12:13](https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk?t=733)

He says constrained conventions make resource generation more tractable for coding agents. He also describes embedding the runtime in Durable Objects and workflows. [33:00](https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk?t=1980) [25:38](https://youtu.be/babOa4shATk?t=1538)