--- title: 37signals Dev — Leaning imperative | daily.dev description: Declarative infrastructure tools can do more with less code and are another abstraction on top of hardware. Declarative tools are, by design, implicit. It’s... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/37signals-dev-leaning-imperative-uqz29cxmr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 37signals Dev — Leaning imperative | daily.dev og:description: Declarative infrastructure tools can do more with less code and are another abstraction on top of hardware. Declarative tools are, by design, implicit. It’s... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/37signals-dev-leaning-imperative-uqz29cxmr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UQZ29cxmr.png og:image:alt: 37signals Dev — Leaning imperative og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 37signals Dev — Leaning imperative **[37signals Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/37signals)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Declarative infrastructure tools can do more with less code and are another abstraction on top of hardware. Declarative tools are, by design, implicit. It’s not your concern how the tool creates the final state, but that you specified it correctly. This becomes more complicated with more moving parts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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