[hdjjhhvvhga]

> this is difficult for me to think about in the same way as trying to picture a 4th dimension.

Why? There are many possibilities, just not that efficient. One of them would involve tagging. The problem with that approach is that not all resources are taggable, and it would take longer to query them.

[notnmeyer]

tagging provider resources? not speaking for every provider or api, but at least on AWS not everything that can be managed supports tagging.

also this requires N api calls each time you check the state for an update. scaling that to a larger team may be difficult due to rate limits.

infra as code tools have to operate within the parameters that the provider apis allow. so when i say it’s hard to imagine, i’m thinking about limitations of the underlying apis.

totally possible im missing something obvious, but there’s a good reason that centralized state exists today. genuinely curious about how we could ditch it in a reasonable way with the existing big cloud APIs.