We Deleted Two Hundred Virtual Machines and Kept Paying for Their Disks
Last year we finished moving the last of our older applications off virtual machines in the cloud and onto managed services. As each application mov…
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A £130 fanless board and two drives replaced most of my cloud subscriptions — the real cost maths, and what actually keeps it alive
There's a version of self-hosting that's about ideology — owning your data, sticking it to Big Cloud. This isn't that post. This is the boring, arit…
The Cheapest Part of That Migration Was the Compute
The business case for moving our analytics platform was built almost entirely on instance pricing. Somebody had compared the cost of our on-premises…
Monitoring Costs Are Out of Control — Here's How to Fix It
The $50K/Month Monitoring Bill I audited our monitoring stack last quarter. The total cost across all tools: $52,000/month. For a company with 200 e…
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
LLM API cost attribution playbook for production SaaS teams
TL;DR If your SaaS product calls multiple LLM providers, the invoice from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, or OpenRouter is not enough. You need…
We Cut Log Costs by 35% Using Vector 0.30 and Loki 3.0: Lessons from a 3-Month Tuning
In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform team slashed log ingestion spend by 35% in 90 days, moving from a brittle Elasticsearch-based pipeline to a tuned…