Episode

TCG079: Why Your State File is Actually a Distributed Systems Problem

Podcast: The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods
Published: Jul 1, 2026
Duration seconds: 2859
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Summary

Malcolm Matalka joins William and Eyvonne to challenge the narrative that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is dead. Malcolm argues that the real value of IaC was never the syntax, but state and governance. Together they examine whether the state was a file problem at all, or a distributed systems problem in a JSON costume. Episode ... Read more »