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Thoughts on Terraform state management, infrastructure parallelism, and building better developer tools.

What Bazel taught us about Terraform

Build systems solved fast-and-correct twenty years ago. A walk through how Bazel's playbook - DAGs, hashing, sandboxes, caches - maps onto Terraform.

Terraform already walks a DAG during apply. But in-run parallelism isn't the bottleneck. The graph is ephemeral, not infrastructure.