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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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…
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 business case for moving our analytics platform was built almost entirely on instance pricing. Somebody had compared the cost of our on-premises…
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…
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
TL;DR If your SaaS product calls multiple LLM providers, the invoice from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, or OpenRouter is not enough. You need…
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…