amen! as another commenter here rightly put: state or idempotency, pick one. hello? how is this even a question? i have a hard time believing that idempotent

amen! as another commenter here rightly put: state or idempotency, pick one. hello? how is this even a question? i have a hard time believing that idempotent infrastructure mutations are not the right move almost always. shameless plug[1], i’ve been exploring an aws specific approach to infrastructure that is stateless and idempotent for exactly these reason. slow, finicky, stateful deploys are about as awful as it gets. add a pinch of lowest common denominator among all providers, and that’s a tough pill to swallow. there’s got to be another way, aws should be fun! 1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws https://github.com/nathants/libaws