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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2024-09-26"]
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Date: "2024-09-26"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-09-26
Recorded episode with Elena Konstantinou. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: second session with Elena — this time focused on infrastructure as code practices and the evolution from Terraform to newer tools like Pulumi and CDK
- Elena provided a comparative analysis of IaC approaches she has seen work across different organizational contexts, with honest assessments of where Terraform still excels and where newer alternatives offer genuine advantages
- Her hands-on experience migrating a large-scale Terraform codebase to Pulumi gave her credibility to discuss the trade-offs without it feeling like vendor advocacy
- Excellent technical depth while remaining accessible; Elena has a talent for explaining complex infrastructure concepts with relatable analogies
- Key quote: "Infrastructure as code solved the 'it works on my machine' problem for servers. But now we have a new problem: 'it works in my Terraform state file'"
- Audio was cleaner than the first session — Elena set up in a better room this time with improved acoustics

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Elena
- [ ] Draft show notes with a comparison table of IaC tools she discussed
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
