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The Terralith is correct. State fragmentation is the problem.

Terraform Infrastructure State Management Terralith Scalability

Masterpoint says split your Terralith into multiple state files. But state fragmentation creates coordination problems Terraform can't see. The real issue isn't monolithic architecture. It's file-based storage with global locks.

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Terraform state locking explained (and why it hurts at scale)

Terraform State Locking Distributed Systems Scalability DevOps

Terraform state locking is a distributed coordination problem solved with filesystem semantics. The result is predictable: global mutexes, deployment queues, and superlinear contention as teams scale.

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