Fail Fast, Refactor Often - Escaping the Defensive Terraform Trap

Scenario Your Terraform apply just failed. Again. For the third time this week, and you're not even sure why. Was it the Azure DevOps provider timing out? That managed identity that existed yesterday but returns 404 today? Or just one of the 247 API calls in your 40-minute deployment hitting a rate limit? Most cloud platforms rely on multiple services running in integration to deliver value. Those…