Thinking about infrastructure dependencies
Articles on platform engineering, multi-repo visibility, blast radius analysis, and the patterns that help teams ship safely.
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How to Find Every Consumer of Your Helm Chart
You maintain a shared Helm chart. A breaking value rename or API version bump is coming. Which deployments across your org depend on it — and at which version? Here's why the answer is harder than it should be.
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How to Find Every Consumer of Your Reusable GitHub Actions Workflow
You maintain a shared GitHub Actions workflow. You need to rename an input, drop a step, or change a required secret. Which repos across your org call it — and at which ref? Here's why the answer is harder than it should be.
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How to Find Every Consumer of Your Terraform Module
When you need to make a breaking change to a shared Terraform module, which repos are affected? Here's why the answer is harder than it should be.
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How to Find Every Consumer of Your Docker Base Image
When a CVE hits your Docker base image, which repos are affected? Here's why the answer is harder than it should be, and what a real solution requires.
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The State of Infrastructure Dependency Tooling in 2026
An honest survey of the infrastructure dependency tooling landscape in 2026 — what Backstage, Renovate, HCP Terraform Explorer, Nx, Wiz, and DIY scripts each solve, where they fall short, and the gap that none of them fill.
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Auto-Discovering Infrastructure Dependencies Across 10 Ecosystems
A technical deep-dive into auto-discovering cross-repo dependencies across Terraform, Docker, CI pipelines, Python, Go, npm, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, and Kustomize — and why each ecosystem fights back.
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The Infrastructure Dependency Problem No One Has Solved
Why every platform team eventually builds the same brittle script, and why it keeps breaking. A deep look at cross-repo dependency visibility — the infrastructure problem hiding in plain sight.