Terraform, a widely-used infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool, can be optimized for efficiency by implementing several key strategies, as demonstrated by JFrog's DevOps and R&D teams. They manage a large-scale infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers, and their improvements include aligning infrastructure solely with IaC, creating distinct development and production branches to avoid workspace drift, centralizing modules in a master branch, using an orchestrator to automate workspace management and detect drift, and decoupling data models to prevent interdependencies. Additionally, JFrog has integrated Terraform support into Artifactory, allowing users to manage Terraform files through local, remote, and virtual repositories, transitioning from source control management to binary management. This shift offers various benefits such as enhanced security, immutability, and version control, with Artifactory providing a unified access point for both private and public registries and supporting Terraform remote backends for improved state management.