Stack boundaries follow blast radius and change frequency, not the org chart. The monorepo only pays for itself while a machine can answer, from a commit, exactly which roots need planning.
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Thirty teams ship from one Terraform repository. How do you cut it into stacks so one bad apply cannot touch everyone?
Stack boundaries follow blast radius and change frequency, not the org chart. The monorepo only pays for itself while a machine can answer, from a commit, exactly which roots need planning.
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