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Cloud & Systems Engineer · Lisbon, Portugal

Technical notes on distributed systems, Linux kernel networking, BGP routing, and infrastructure orchestration at scale. Practical experiences from production environments.

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Oct 7, 2026 • 5 min read • #terraform

Terraform in Production (Part 3): The Module Dilemma — Encapsulation vs. Over-Engineering

The honest confession: why creating heavy internal modules often leads to leaky abstractions, 60+ passthrough variables, and diamond dependency conflicts.

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Terraform (Part 1): Why HCL Beats Cloud-Native IaC The single cloud fallacy, multi-provider orchestration Terraform (Part 2): Air-Gapped CI/CD with GitHub Actions OIDC cryptographic tokens, private VPC self-hosted runners Terraform (Part 3): The Module Dilemma Leaky abstractions, God module anti-pattern, Sandi Metz rule WireGuard & MTU/MSS: Prevent Packet Loss on Linux Packet encapsulation overhead, fragmentation, TCP MSS clamping Welcome to BGP: Setting Up Your IPv6 Network ASN, Bird2 daemon, IPv6 prefix peering

WireGuard & Tunnel MTU / MSS Clamping Calculator LIVE MATH

Tunnel Protocol

Outer IP Layer

Base Ethernet MTU

MAX SAFE TUNNEL MTU: 1448

TCP MSS CLAMP: 1408

Terraform Moved Block Synthesizer HCL 1.1+

Old State Address

New Refactored Address

moved {
  from = aws_security_group.allow_tls
  to   = module.network.aws_security_group.allow_tls
}

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