---
title: "Effect Office Hours 27: Alchemy, infrastructure as effects"
description: "Sam Goodwin presents Alchemy as an Effect-native system for planning, testing, and deploying infrastructure."
group: source
speaker: "Sam Goodwin"
date: 2026-04-30
url: https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw
sources:
  - https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw
---

# Effect Office Hours 27: Alchemy, infrastructure as effects

Sam describes an agent-oriented workflow from an empty project through deployment, tests, CI, and operations. Effects and Layers let the type system track the resource providers a Stack needs; real-infrastructure tests check behavior after deployment. [03:38](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=218) [07:01](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=421) [16:01](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=961)

He explains bindings as application capabilities that can inform least-privilege policies. The runtime and infrastructure stay related without bundling provider implementations into the application. [58:16](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3496) [59:23](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3563) [70:55](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=4255)

## Lore on this page

- [Bindings](/lore/bindings)