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What Bazel taught us about Terraform

Stategraph Terraform Build Systems Bazel Architecture

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

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Engineering Log: Stategraph 2.0 and the configurations we used to give up on

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Terraform Modules

Stategraph 2.0 ships broader module coverage, a more robust HCL parser, and a faster core. Here is the engineering work behind the release.

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How to use Claude Code with Terraform, without hitting a wall

Terraform AI DevOps Stategraph

Use Claude Code as a Terraform agent that writes, validates, and iterates on HCL, and learn where the backend becomes the bottleneck once the loop works.

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Engineering Log: Refactor mode for Terraform

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Demo

Demo day showcased Stategraph refactor mode: change your Terraform code, and Stategraph generates the state moves to match. No more anxiety.

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Engineering Log: Stategraph 1.0.0 and the month that made it real

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Terraform Testing

Stategraph 1.0.0 shipped with full tfvars support, HCL parser improvements, and a testing overhaul. Here is the engineering work behind the milestone.

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Announcing Stategraph Velocity: Terraform plans in seconds, not minutes

Stategraph Terraform OpenTofu Product Updates

Stategraph Velocity is fast plan and apply for Terraform or OpenTofu, built by replacing the flat state file with a database-backed dependency graph.

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Terraform automation: strategies, tools, and what actually slows you down

Automation CI/CD Stategraph

Learn how to automate Terraform deployments with CI/CD pipelines, the right tooling, and smarter state management for faster, more reliable infrastructure.

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Engineering Log: Insights and Inventory launch day

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Launch

State Backend Insights and Inventory launched with unlimited pricing. Gap Analysis generates Terraform code. Fast plan and apply ships in February.

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Engineering Log: Inventory and path to faster plans

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Demo

Demo day two showcased inventory management going GA in January with the technical foundation for parallel operations: coning and reification.

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Engineering Log: Computing dependency cones for Terraform resources

Engineering Log Terraform Stategraph Infrastructure

Built a tool that computes the dependency cone of any Terraform resource and extracts a minimal subset file containing only what you need.

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Engineering Log: Importing state into a queryable graph

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Demo

We showed Stategraph to infrastructure engineers. The Q&A surfaced what actually matters: scale, self-hosting, and when to stop splitting modules.

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Why we chose OCaml to write Stategraph

OCaml Type Systems Functional Programming Infrastructure Stategraph

When managing infrastructure, state corruption must be impossible. OCaml's type system catches entire categories of bugs at compile time.

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Engineering Log: Testing round-trip validation for lossless ingestion

Engineering Log Data Integrity Stategraph OCaml Testing

Stategraph ingests Terraform state through four transformations. We built a round-trip validation test to prove every transformation is lossless.

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