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That does not seem problematic with modern APIs and concurrency. Two sources of truth is highly problematic

• rad_gruchalski 4y ago
  But it is problematic when you deal with larger infrastructures due to rate limits.
  • mountainriver 4y ago
    I can’t imagine you would ever hit a rate limit, how often are you deploying large sums of infrastructure? For me it’s maybe a couple times a day and the surface area is small
    • tedivm 4y ago
      AWS API Rate limits are very surprising. I've hit them on new accounts when trying to deploy terraform based code, and that's without having to literally scan the entire account. If I have 3k machines running in an autoscaling group I think it would be ridiculous to have to hit each one of those with API calls to try and infer which were or weren't part of my state. Building a simple high availability VPC is about 72 resources just by itself. I don't think people advocating for "the cloud is the state" realize how big even trivial environments can get- let alone complex ones.
      • mountainriver 4y ago
        Huh I've never hit rate limiting on GET with AWS, could just be my luck. This also might not be the answer for every problem, but could be nice for some
        • rad_gruchalski 4y ago
          “I have never” doesn’t equal “it doesn’t happen”.