In Q3 2025, our 12-person platform engineering team spent 42% of our quarterly sprint capacity on Terraform state conflicts, provider version mismatches, and custom module maintenance. By Q1 2026, after migrating 100% of our AWS infrastructure to CloudFormation 2026 (the rebranded, Cloud-Native IaC service formerly called AWS Cloud Control), that maintenance burden dropped to 7% — a 35% net reduction in operational overhead, saving us $210k annually in engineering time. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ hashicorp/terraform — 48,303 stars, 10,331 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ti-84 Evo (275 points) New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (234 points) Artemis II Photo Timeline (42 points) The smelly baby problem (93 points) A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf] (19 points) Key Insights CloudFormation 2026 reduces state management overhead by 92% compared to Terraform, per our internal benchmarks.…