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Inside Terraform's DAG: How Dependency Ordering Really Works

A technical deep dive into Terraform's dependency graph engine: how the DAG is constructed, how implicit and explicit dependencies work, and how Terraform walks the graph to execute plans with parallelism.

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Terraliths Are the Natural Shape of Infrastructure

The Terraform Terralith isn't an anti-pattern. It's the natural shape of infrastructure. Learn why monolithic Terraform state only feels wrong because of tooling limitations, not architectural flaws.

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Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem

Terraform's state file is fundamentally a distributed systems problem masquerading as a file storage problem. A flat file with a global lock becomes a bottleneck at scale. We explore why treating state as a dependency graph in a database unlocks parallelism, queryability, and safer operations.

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