// Articles
Guides, tutorials, and comparisons to help you build better backend applications.
Why teams are consolidating, how AI agents change the tradeoff, and a framework for deciding
Real languages synthesizing CloudFormation versus HCL and a multi-cloud provider ecosystem
Write infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, or Go on top of the Terraform engine
Where to look when Crossplane's Kubernetes dependency or operational weight stops fitting
A continuously reconciling control plane inside Kubernetes versus a one-shot CLI apply
A practical, audience-segmented decision on when Terraform earns its place and when it's overhead
The real options for TS and Node engineers who don't want to write HCL
A step-by-step migration path that imports existing resources instead of recreating them
A real programming language or an open-source, Terraform-compatible HCL engine
One provisions cloud resources, the other configures machines. Most teams end up running both.
The AWS-committed team's real decision, with the tradeoffs on both sides
HCL and a purpose-built DSL against real programming languages, and how the OpenTofu fork changes the math