---
title: "Infrastructure as effects"
description: "Sam Goodwin relates application operations to infrastructure requirements in one typed program."
group: concept
terms:
  - "infrastructure as effects"
sources:
  - https://youtu.be/YEn4A7XxgF4?t=1831
  - https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=4255
---

# Infrastructure as effects

Sam describes runtime clients, business logic, infrastructure policies, and deployed resources as related parts of a cloud application. A client operation can imply a policy requirement that is supplied when the function is built. [Happy Path 116, 28:00](https://youtu.be/YEn4A7XxgF4?t=1680) [30:31](https://youtu.be/YEn4A7XxgF4?t=1831).

He says this structure can keep provider implementations out of the runtime bundle. [Effect Office Hours 27, 70:55](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=4255).

See [Happy Path 116](/lore/happy-path-116-infrastructure-as-effects-sam-goodwin).