[sgarland]

The opposite can be true as well. I’ve seen TF environments that were designed with so many layers of abstractions that unraveling a single piece of infra was an incredibly long endeavor.

Solving Imaginary Problems At Scale is a thing. Monolithic TF – or at least one per env – will take you extremely far, and is easy to immediately understand. When it comes time to break out of it, don’t go overboard.