Cloud on Danilo Falcão da Silva

Terraform, OpenTofu and Pulumi: Why I Still Run Terraform in 2026

Thu, 21 May 2026 23:00:00 -0300

Infrastructure as Code stopped being a single-answer question a couple of years ago. Terraform went BSL in August 2023, OpenTofu forked under MPL, Pulumi kept arguing that infrastructure should be real code in real languages, and IBM closed the $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition in February 2025. Three legitimate tools, three different bets on who owns the abstraction.

I still run Terraform. For everything.

This post is the honest version of why. I’ve read the OpenTofu release notes, watched Pulumi talks, played with both on weekend projects, and read more migration write-ups than I can remember. I have never put OpenTofu or Pulumi in front of production traffic. Most of what follows about those two is research, not muscle memory — and I’ll flag that as I go.

AWS Lambda Still Matters in 2026: Glue, Burst, and Honest Trade-offs

Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:00 -0300

I have spent most of my career running things that boot. Bare metal, VMs, containers, Kubernetes — boxes that come up, hold state, and need somebody to think about their lifecycle. AWS Lambda is the opposite of that mental model, and for a long time I treated it the way a lot of old-school infrastructure people treat it: useful for toy apps, fine for a Slack bot, not a serious tool.

Hetzner Isn't the Cheap Default Anymore — And the AI Boom Is Why

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:30:00 -0300

I’ve been running personal infrastructure on Hetzner for the better part of a decade. Cloud VMs for side projects. A couple of dedicated boxes for the things I didn’t want to babysit on AWS pricing. The calculus was always the same: pay a third of what the hyperscalers charge, manage it yourself, accept the lack of a managed-service safety net. The deal was very, very good.

On April 1, 2026, that deal got noticeably worse.