field notes

Eliminating noisy plans by fixing provider edge cases, state mismatches, and unsafe defaults to make applies predictable again.

End to end ownership of a production feature, from design through rollout, touching infrastructure, backend, frontend, and documentation.

Debugging persistent drift caused by subtle JSON key ordering differences between Terraform state and the AWS API.

A constrained workaround using null_resource to restore idempotency while waiting on an upstream provider fix.