I Suspected Jira Was Burning My AI Tokens. The Data Told a More Complicated Story

Over the past few months, I had watched the token usage in my AI development workflow creep upward. Some of that was expected. The codebase was growing, my agents had more instructions, and I was asking them to handle longer tasks. Still, the increase was large enough that I started examining every source of context. […]

Terraform and configuration validation

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The infrastructure-as-code (IaC) programming language Terraform is an amazing tool in cloud engineering, primarily for its declarative and cloud-agnostic nature. It provides cloud provisioning and maintenance capabilities that scale with your objectives, from local experimentation to full-on production development. This article will highlight Terraform’s ability to validate variables when referencing the state file, before and […]