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  1. S3 Native State Locking

    Reflecting on the implementation of S3-native state locking in Terraform, highlighting the challenges, teamwork, and community feedback that made it a success.

  2. Why There Isn't a Generic Hcl Formatter

    If you were wondering why there isn’t a generic HCL formatter, this post is for you.

  3. Don't Enforce Policy with Terraform

    Terraform’s purpose isn’t to enforce policy; it’s to create policies that enforce.

  4. Profiling Terraform

    Profiling Terraform to identify bottlenecks, using pprof and FlameGraph.

  5. Proxying Terraform Traffic to a Private Kubernetes Cluster

    Proxy Terraform traffic to your private Kubernetes cluster using a SOCKS5 proxy.

  6. Terraform Proverbs

    A few thoughts expressed as proverbs about Terraform.

  7. Null Is Not Nothing

    In Terraform it’s a value that represents the absence of a value.

  8. Why

    Why do I have a digital garden? Why do I write in public?

  9. Platforms Are Abstractions

    Platforms are abstractions. Effective platform teams offer other teams the right abstraction, and this shouldn’t be a single standardized abstraction.

  10. Don’t Do Irrelevant Busywork in the Name of Agility

    Engineering bandwidth that is not fully occupied at all times is not a bad thing.

  11. Behind the Scenes Lambda

    How does AWS Lambda work under the hood? Let’s find out together!