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Engineering Log: Importing state into a queryable graph

Engineering Log Product Updates Stategraph Demo

We showed Stategraph to a room full of infrastructure engineers. The Q&A surfaced what actually matters: scale, self-hosting, and when you can stop splitting root modules.

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Terragrunt was a band-aid. Stategraph fixes the wound.

Terraform Terragrunt State Management Infrastructure

Terragrunt solved Terraform's scaling problems by splitting state. Stategraph eliminates them by fixing the primitive itself.

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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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Why we chose OCaml to write Stategraph

OCaml Type Systems Functional Programming Infrastructure Stategraph

When you're managing other people's infrastructure, state corruption has to be impossible, not unlikely. OCaml's type system catches entire categories of bugs at compile time that tests miss.

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Engineering Log: Testing round-trip validation for lossless ingestion

Engineering Log Data Integrity Stategraph OCaml Testing

Stategraph ingests Terraform state files through four transformations. We built a round-trip validation test to prove that every transformation is lossless and no data gets lost along the way.

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